Auburn High School (Rockford, Illinois)
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| 5110 Auburn Street Rockford, Illinois, 61101 USA |
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| Coordinates | 42°17′13″N 89°08′16″W / 42.28694°N 89.13778°WCoordinates: 42°17′13″N 89°08′16″W / 42.28694°N 89.13778°W |
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| School type | public secondary |
| Opened | 1960 |
| School district | Rockford Public Schools 205 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Robert Willis[1] |
| CEEB Code | 143693 |
| Principal | Ryan Reinecke[2] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 1976[3] |
| Average class size | 23.0[3] |
| Campus type | urban |
| Color(s) | red black[4] |
| Fight song | Mighty Auburn |
| Athletics conference | NIC-10 |
| Mascot | The Knight |
| Team name | (Lady) Knights[4] |
| Average ACT scores | 19.9[3] |
| Yearbook | Excalibur |
| Website | [3] |
Auburn High School is a public high school located in Rockford, Illinois, USA, currently housing close to 2,000 ninth- through twelfth-grade students living in the Rockford, IL school district.
In addition to serving students living on the west side of Rockford, Auburn houses the high school portions of the Gifted Program (the Academy), the Creative and Performing Arts Program (CAPA), and the only Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program remaining in Rockford.
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[edit] Academics
Auburn maintains a standard offering of typical academic core, foreign language, and basic career preparation courses, along with honors offerings for a small number of widely-taken subjects. Most students who desire to take advanced or specialized classes feed in to Auburn's specialized programs described below:
The Academy program is the high school component of the Rockford Public Schools' Gifted Program for high-achieving students. The Academy program is selective, with admittance based on annual testing, and along with Washington School, which serves grades 1 through 8, forms the Gifted Program in Rockford. This program continually ranks high in the state with respect to test scores.[citation needed] With Academy and non-Academy test scores separated, the Academy frequently ranks among the top student bodies in the nation in both middle school standardized tests and high school ACT scores.[citation needed]
The Academy program currently offers AP courses in Literature and Composition, Language and Composition, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics B, Physics C, World History, European History, United States History, Macroeconomics, United States Government and Politics, and Psychology, as well as Music Theory and Art History through independent study. The remaining non-AP core academic requirements for graduation are supplemented with Academy-level core classes, and an Academy Seal of distinction is offered to students who successfully complete four years of Academy and AP courses in each of four core academic categories while maintaining good academic standing.
The Auburn School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) is the 9th-12th grade portion of the district's K-12 CAPA specialized arts program. Auburn CAPA students can take academic coursework via regular, honors, or Academy courses while continuing training in visual arts, music, dance, and theatre through coursework and involvement in arts festivals, recitals, and a five-production theatre season.[5]
The only Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps remaining in the Rockford Public Schools is housed at Auburn.[citation needed] Many of the top students in the program are a part of the Rifle Team (which is among the top teams in the state), the Drill Team (which has placed at Purdue University in the past few years), the Color Guard, and the Drum and Bugle Corps.[citation needed]
[edit] Facilities
Auburn's school complex is located across Pierpont Avenue from McIntosh Elementary School and between School and Auburn Streets. A 2007 school board decision combined the Auburn High School and Wilson Middle School campuses into the "Auburn Main Campus" (housing sophomores through seniors at the traditional Auburn High School building adjacent to Auburn Street) and the "Auburn Freshman Campus" (housing approximately 600 freshmen in the former Wilson Middle School building). This student arrangement was in place for the 2007-08 through 2010-11 school years; however, beginning with the current 2011-12 school year, freshman are now housed with the rest of the student body at the traditional Auburn High School building due to school board decisions to consolidate Rockford middle school facilities. Cottonwood Airport is located across the street to the North of Auburn High School, and has a north-south grass strip aligned approximately with the current football field.
The gymnasium is named for notable former coach Dolph Stanley. For 10 seasons, Stanley coached the Knights to four regional and three sectional titles, advancing to the state quarterfinals in 1963.[6] Though his teams did not make the finals of the IHSA tournament, Stanley's Auburn teams achieved a combined record of 176 wins and 78 losses.
Around 1970, a football stadium was built next to Auburn High School. Originally, and for many years, the stadium was called "Westburn Stadium", and was used by both Auburn and the now-defunct West High School that originally had no stadium of its own. Currently, Auburn shares the stadium (now titled Wyeth Stadium) with Jefferson High School, as Jefferson also has no home stadium of its own. The football field is surrounded by a relatively-new track.
[edit] Notable activities
The Academy-dominated quiz bowl team has placed in the Final Four in the Illinois High School Association Scholastic Bowl state finals the past eight years, including a 3rd place finish in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, a 2nd place finish in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and a 1st place finish in 2008. Based on high-level quiz bowl tournament statistics, the Auburn Quiz Bowl team is currently ranked 4th in the nation as of January 2012.[7]
The Auburn Chess team has also placed well in the Illinois High School Association Chess state finals in the past, achieving a 4th place finish in 1996, a 2nd place finish in 1989, 1991, and 1994, and a 1st place finish in 1992 and 1993.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Adam Arling is a guitarist for the band The Last Vegas.[8][9]
- Charles Box is a former mayor of Rockford; the first African American to hold that office.[10]
- Michael Elston, Chief of Staff & Counselor, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice.[citation needed]
- Donald A. Manzullo is a U.S. Representative, representing Illinois' 16th congressional district.[11][12]
- Robert Nardelli is the former CEO of Chrysler and Home Depot.[13]
- Rick Venturi is a football coach who was head football coach for Northwestern University (1978–80) before briefly serving as head coach for the Indianapolis Colts (1991) and New Orleans Saints (1996). He has also been a defensive coordinator.[14]
- Shawn Wade is a former bass player for the band 12 Stones.[citation needed]
- Michelle Williams is a former member of the band Destiny's Child.[citation needed]
- Kimberla Lawson Roby is a New York Times Bestselling Author that published 16 novels. Her novels have frequented numerous bestseller lists, including The New York Times and those in USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine, Upscale Magazine, Emerge Magazine, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, The Dallas Morning News, and The Austin Chronicle to name a few.[15]
[edit] References
- ^ "Rockford Public Schools Superintendent". http://www2.rps205.com/District/Pages/Superintendent.aspx. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ^ "Auburn High School". http://www2.rps205.com/Schools/Pages/ProfilePages/HighSchools/Auburn-High-School.aspx. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Illinois School Report Card". Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). 2009. http://iirc.niu.edu/School.aspx?source=About_Students&source2=Class_Size&schoolID=041012050250001&level=S. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Rockford (Auburn)". Illinois High School Association (IHSA). http://www.ihsa.org/school/schools/1819.htm. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
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- ^ IHSA Record Book
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- ^ Arco, Paul Anthony (30 June), "Original Mötley Crüe back on tour", MorningSun (GateHouse News Service), http://www.morningsun.net/news/entertainment/x232967176/Original-M-tley-Cr-e-back-on-tour, retrieved 23 December 2009, "The Mötley show also marks the return of Rockford natives Nate and Adam Arling. The brothers are members of The Last Vegas; Nate, a 1996 East High graduate, plays drums and Adam, a 1993 product of Auburn High, plays guitar."
- ^ Braun, Georgette (11 November), "The Last Vegas wins spot on 2009 Mötley Crüe tour", Rockford Register Star, http://www.rrstar.com/news/x1772942953/The-Last-Vegas-wins-spot-on-2009-Motley-Crue-tour, retrieved 23 December 2009, "Arling’s older brother, Adam Arling, a 1993 graduate of Auburn High School in Rockford, plays guitar for the hard-rocking, five-member band."[dead link]
- ^ Sweeny, Chuck (May 1991). "Mayor Box at mid-term: keeping taxes low and understanding Rockford's 'Mr. Larsons'". Illinois Issues (Springfield, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois at Springfield (Sangamon State University)) XVII (5): 10. ISSN 0738-9663. http://www.lib.niu.edu/1991/ii910510.html. Retrieved 23 December 2009. "In his first venture into electoral politics, Democrat Box, a former athlete and scholar at Rockford's Auburn High School, then at Dartmouth College, slam-dunked his opposition."
- ^ "Biography for Donald A. Manzullo". U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. 21 June 2005. http://www.uscc.gov/bios/2005bios/05_06_21bios/manzullo_don.htm. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- ^ "Manzullo, Donald A.". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m001138. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- ^ Durbin, Dee-Ann (8 September), "Nardelli to keep Chrysler brands", Rockford Register Star (AP), http://www.rrstar.com/business/x823001834, retrieved 23 December 2009, "Chrysler’s new owner, private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP, has hired Nardelli, a 1966 Rockford Auburn High School graduate, and a handful of other new executives to turn around the automaker."
- ^ "Catching Up...With Rick Venturi". St. Louis Rams. 25 May 2006. http://www.stlouisrams.com/article/53955/. Retrieved 23 December 2009. "Education: Rockford-Auburn High School (Ill.). Northwestern University, dual degree in history and physical education."[dead link]
- ^ Braun, Georgette (November 6, 2008). "Kimberla Lawson Roby signs deal with Lifetime". Rockford (IL) Register Star. http://www.rrstar.com/x1720643682/Kimberla-Lawson-Roby-signs-deal-with-Lifetime. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
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