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Kaneland High School

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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
Jill Maras

Campus
  
Country

Number of students
  
1,346

Color
  
Black, White, and Silver

Established
  
July 1, 1958

Enrollment
  
1,346 (2011)

Phone
  
+1 630-365-5100

Founded
  
1 July 1958

Athletics conference
  
Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference

Address
  
47W326 Keslinger Rd, Maple Park, IL 60151, USA

District
  
Kaneland Community Unit School District 302

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Kaneland High School, or KHS, is a public four-year high school located in Maple Park, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Kaneland Community Unit School District 302.

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History

Kaneland first opened in 1958.

In Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District 302, the Illinois opened up school districts to civil lawsuits. The case was over a bus crash during the early years of the school. The father of a student injured in the crash sued for $56,000. The court stated that public school districts should not be immune from civil tort action.

Academics

Kaneland's graduating class of 2014 had an average composite ACT score of 22.2, the highest in the school's history, and graduated 100.0% of its senior class. Kaneland has made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE), a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, the school was placed on the Illinois Honor Roll for significantly improving its performance on the PSAE.

Athletics

Kaneland competes in the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference and Illinois High School Association. They have a total of ten Illinois High School State Championships, in football (1997, 1998), boys' track and field (1975, 1977), girls' track and field (1987, 1988, 2016), boys' cross country (1987), girls' basketball (1982), and baseball (2011).

Kaneland has gone to the playoffs for football three times in the past three school years. All three years the team went undefeated in the regular season, obtaining a 9-0 record.

Notable alumni

  • Casey Crosby, Current MLB player (Free Agent).
  • Don Beebe, Retired NFL player
  • P. J. Fleck, former NFL player and current head coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
  • References

    Kaneland High School Wikipedia