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Prairie Ridge High School is the newest of the four high schools in Community High School District 155 in Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States. The school opened in 1997 to address the overpopulation of the three area high schools. In addition to Crystal Lake, Prairie Ridge also accepts students from Cary, Fox River Grove, Prairie Grove, and a small portion of McHenry. Prior to opening its doors, the first graduating class of students was allowed to vote on the name, colors, and song for the new High School. The District approved the name, and Prairie Ridge was born. It now serves more than 1,700 students and has been recognized several times as one of the 50 best public high schools in Illinois.[1]
[edit] Athletics
Prairie Ridge competes in the Fox division of the Fox Valley Conference, which is a member of the Illinois High School Association. The school's more notable athletic programs are football, girls volleyball, boys soccer, boys and girls tennis, and baseball; all of which have achieved high success in upper state competition. Both boys and girls swimming co-ops with Cary-Grove, CL Central, and CL South.
| Boys Sports |
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cross Country
- Football
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- Golf
- Hockey (Club)
- Lacrosse (Club)
- Soccer
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- Swimming
- Tennis
- Wrestling
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| Girls Sports |
- Basketball
- Cheerleading
- Color Guard
- Cross Country
- Golf
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- Gymnastics
- Lacrosse (Club)
- Poms/Dance Team
- Soccer
- Softball
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- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track and Field
- Volleyball
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[edit] Activities
Prairie Ridge has a large selection of in-school and after-school activities available to all students. Some notable programs are the A Capella and Madrigal choirs, which were recognized by the Illinois Music Educators Association in 2002 and performing at a music festival in Toronto, Canada in 2003. Band programs include Marching, Jazz, and Symphonic. Choir features previously mentioned A Capella and Madrigal along with Queen Singers, Court Singers, and Men's & Women's Treble. There are class clubs for each grade level, freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior.
| Activities |
- Band
- Choir
- Class Clubs
- Debate
- Drama
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- Foreign Exchange Program
- French Club
- German Club
- German National Honor Society
- Link Crew
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- Literary Magazine
- Math Team
- "Wolfprints" Newspaper
- National Honor Society
- Peer Mediation
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- Scholastic Bowl
- Science Olympiad
- Spanish Club
- Spanish Honor Society
- Speech Team
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- Student Council
- Trilingual & Quadrilingual Scholars
- Varsity Club
- WYSE
- Yearbook
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