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Auburn High School
File:AuburnRockfordHSlogo.png
Address
Map
5110 Auburn Street

Rockford
,
Illinois
61101

United States
Coordinates42°17′13″N 89°08′16″W / 42.28694°N 89.13778°W / 42.28694; -89.13778
Information
School typePublic Secondary
Opened1960
School districtRockford Public School District 205
SuperintendentDr. Ehren Robert Jarrett[1]
CEEB code143693
PrincipalJanice Hawkins [2]
Grades9–12
GenderCoed
Enrollment1976[3]
Average class size23.0[3]
Campus typeMid-size City[4]
Color(s)  Red
  Black[6]
Fight songMighty Auburn
Athletics conferenceNorthern Illinois Conference (NIC-10)[5]
MascotKnight
Team name(Lady) KnightsCite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).
YearbookExcalibur
WebsiteOfficial School Website

Auburn High School is a public high school located in Rockford, Illinois, US, housing close to 2,000 ninth- through twelfth-grade students living in the Rockford school district.

In addition to serving students living on the west side of Rockford, Auburn houses the high school portions of the Renaissance Academy(formerly known as the Gifted Program), the Creative and Performing Arts Program (CAPA), and the only Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program remaining in Rockford.

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 Renaissance Academy program is the high school component of the Rockford Public Schools' Gifted Program for high-achieving students. The Renaissance Academy program is selective, with admittance based on annual testing, and along with Marshall School and Washington School, which serves grades 1 through 5 and 6 through 8 respectively, forms the Gifted Program in Rockford. This program continually ranks high in the state with respect to test scores. [7] 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. [8]

The Academy program currently offers AP courses in English Literature and Composition, English Language and Composition, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics B, Physics C, World History, European History, United States History, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, United States Government and Politics, Comparative 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 Renaissance 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.[9]

The only Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps remaining in the Rockford Public Schools is housed at Auburn. [10] 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, the Sabre Guard, and the Drum and Bugle Corps.[citation needed]

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 2011-12 school year, freshmen 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.[11] 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. In the fall of 2014 a new fieldhouse opened on the Auburn campus for their athletics teams which will include but not limited to 4 indoor basketball courts, 200M indoor track, updated weight room and other modern features. The Fieldhouse hosted its first high school events on January 31, 2015 for the NIC-10 Conference wrestling meet and February 7, 2015 the First Annual Auburn Boys Track & Field Invite.

In the fall of 1969 a football stadium was built & opened 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 (1940-1989) that originally had no stadium on their campus. Currently, Auburn shares the stadium (now named for their first principal, John W. Wyeth Stadium) with Jefferson High School, as Jefferson also has no home stadium on its campus. The football field is surrounded by a relatively new track. Field Turf was added to the stadium in the summer of 2012 along with RPS205's other facility, Swanson Stadium located at Guilford High School. Prior to the 1969-70 school year Auburn High school played their "home" football games and track & field meets at Charles Beyer Stadium located at 15th Avenue & Seminary Street from 1960 to 1968 and two games in the fall of 1969 before moving to their current facility during the fall of 1969. (Beyer Stadium was also the home of the Rockford Peaches of the AAGBL from 1943 to 1954.)

Notable activities

The Scholastic Bowl team under Coach Linda Greene has placed in the Final Four in the Illinois High School Association Scholastic Bowl state finals each of the past fifteen years, including a third-place finish in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2012, a 2nd place finish in 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016, and 1st-place finishes in 2008 and 2015. Based on high-level quiz bowl tournament statistics, the Auburn Quiz Bowl A team is currently ranked 16th[12] in the nation as of June 2014.

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.[citation needed]

The Auburn basketball team made their first IHSA final 4 appearance in 2012, under their 6th head coach, Bryan Ott, bringing home a 3rd place trophy. Auburn was the last Rockford Public school basketball team to bring home at least a 4th place trophy from the state tournament (Rockford HS 3-1st place finishes the last being in 1939, West HS 2-1st place finishes in 1955 & 56, East HS 2nd place in 1948, Guilford HS 2nd place in 1993, Jefferson HS 4th place in 2005.) In 2016, once again under Head Coach Ott, the Knights Boys Basketball team made their second IHSA Class 4A final 4 appearance this time bringing home a 4th place trophy.

Auburn football has made it to the IHSA playoffs five times since the playoffs were established in 1974. Their first appearance was in 1990 winning two games before being eliminated in the third round (quarter finals) and then in 2012 and 2014 being eliminated in the first round both years. They clinched their fourth playoff berth in 2015 along with the NIC-10 conference championship. This is the first conference championship for Auburn since a 3-way tie in 1962 with Elgin H.S. and Aurora East H.S. in the NIC-10's predecessor, the Big 8 Conference. Their 2015 playoff appearance ended in the IHSA Class 7A quarter-finals with a playoff record of 2 wins and 1 loss.[citation needed]. During the 2016 season the Knights earned co-championship of the NIC-10 with Boylan Catholic (both teams 8-1) and their third consecutive playoff appearance, fifth overall.

The Lady Knights basketball team won back-to-back IHSA Class AA Regional Championships in 1986 and 1987, advancing to the Sectional Finals in 1986 before being eliminated in the state tournament.[citation needed]

Madasyn Pettersen (sophomore) representing Auburn on the RPS205 co-op girls' golf team won the IHSA Class AA individual state championship in October 2015. The previous year as a freshman she placed third in the state. This is Auburn's first individual state champion.[citation needed]

Notable alumni

References

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  13. ^ Arco, Paul Anthony (30 June 2009), "Original Mötley Crüe back on tour", MorningSun (GateHouse News Service), 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.
  14. ^ Braun, Georgette (11 November 2008), "The Last Vegas wins spot on 2009 Mötley Crüe tour", Rockford Register Star, 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]
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  18. ^ Durbin, Dee-Ann (8 September 2007), "Nardelli to keep Chrysler brands", Rockford Register Star (AP), 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.
  19. ^ Braun, Georgette (November 6, 2008). "Kimberla Lawson Roby signs deal with Lifetime". Rockford (IL) Register Star. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  20. ^ "Catching Up...With Rick Venturi". St. Louis Rams. 25 May 2006. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2009. Education: Rockford-Auburn High School (Ill.). Northwestern University, dual degree in history and physical education. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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