Glenbrook North High School , or GBN , is a four-year public high school located in Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Glenbrook High School District 225, which also includes Glenbrook South High School. The middle school feeder for GBN is Wood Oaks Secondary School, Stanley Field Secondary School, Maple Middle School, and Northbrook Junior High School.
By 2018, Niche rated Glenbrook North High School as the 48th best public high school in the United States.
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History
Glenbrook North High School opened its doors in the fall of 1953 as Glenbrook High School, and was named Glenbrook North in 1962 after the opening of Glenbrook South High School. The school serves unincorporated and unrelated areas in Northbrook.
Glenbrook North has grown fourfold in the size of its student body since its inception. In 1979, the school opened the Sheely Center for the Performing Arts, and in 1990, a building was erected. In the spring of 1996, a three-year renovation and construction project involving science and wing facilities "A" was built. The second swimming pool was built in 2000 to accommodate growth in water sports. A successful referendum in 2006 allowed the creation of a second-class, high-end "F" wing, a sophisticated Fitness Center, complete renovations and additions to the Music Area, and a sun-filled main entrance completed in 2009.
Over the years, Glenbrook North High School has received state and national recognition for its academic excellence. In the late 1950s, when Glenbrook was less than 10 years old, he was named one of 44 high schools in the country with a survey in a national magazine. In 1984, GBN was named one of only four high schools in the state of Illinois to receive the United States Office of Excellence Education in Education Award from President Ronald Reagan. In 2008, GBN was selected again for the nation's top advantage as the Blue Ribbon School.
John Hughes Movies
The 1985 Glenbrook North John Hughes alumni film The Breakfast Club featured a group of children from "Shermer, Illinois 60062." Shermerville is the real name of the town of Northbrook, where GBN is located, and 60062 is the postal code of the city. The film features a clash between what was known during the 1980s as a 'sporto' versus 'weird' culture in GBN. Some of the 'The Breakfast Club' interior scenes were filmed inside Glenbrook North, and the GBN exterior images were used in The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller Day Off.
President Clinton's Visit
On January 22, 1997, President Bill Clinton visited Glenbrook North to deliver a speech on educational initiatives. President Clinton's speech was held in school buildings and was largely centered around mathematics and science. At that time, students in Northern Illinois participated in a program called "First in the World." This program is to assess the level of knowledge in mathematics and science to other schools around the world. Northern Illinois students ranked 1st in the Science category and ranked 3rd in the Mathematics category. Commenting on Glenbrook High School District 225, President Clinton said:
Can you imagine a school district or set of school districts with more original local control than this one, with - more than this - more parent involvement, more committed teachers, more - you know you have local control. But you do not use it as an excuse to not throw your hat in the ring. I think it's amazing that it comes out this way. But if you have completed the eighth and ninth, I will still be here to pat you on the back because you have the courage to do it.
Less than a month later, Bill Clinton referred his visit to Glenbrook North and this achievement in the Unitary State of 1997 on 4 February 1997.
Student hijack incident
In May 2003, Glenbrook North High School became famous after off-campus events, non-school-sanctions involving students dressed in school colors turned into a major haze incident that attracted national media attention. This show is a girls game "Puff Powder" between members of the junior and senior class. The "game" took place on Sunday, May 4, 2003, at Chipilly Woods, part of the Cook County Forest Preservation District. Although the annual Powder Puff game was held at the school's soccer stadium in the previous decades, there was no football at the 2003 event. During the event, about 20 junior class participants were covered with paint, urine, dirt, and animal gut. Some were shot with paintball guns, others were kicked and beaten. At least five participants suffered injuries requiring medical care.
Thirty-one students - twenty-eight women and three men - were suspended from school for 10 days. They were then expelled. Some students are expelled and their parents file a lawsuit to allow students who are issued to graduate. The plaintiffs and school districts reached an agreement whereby students who were expelled would have their diplomas sent to them but would not be able to participate in the graduation ceremony. Local law enforcement authorities investigate hazing incidents and file charges against 15 students for attacks and batteries. Two mothers are accused of giving alcohol to the event. All convicts and punishments received lightly, ranging from probation to community service.
A community task force was formed by the Northbrook Police Service Community Division after the hazing incident. Their latest report emphasizes the need to recognize and prevent hijack incidents.
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Academics
The academic year of the school at Glenbrook North High School consists of 37 weeks divided into two semesters. Glenbrook North has a block schedule with class meetings on alternating days. Each school day consists of four blocks of 90 minutes each. The summer school program at Glenbrook North is six weeks long.
By 2017, Glenbrook North High School graduated 98.4% of its senior class, which has an average composite ACT score of 27.1, and 89.5% enrolled in college. Class 2017 includes 21 National Semifinalists of Merit. The student-teacher ratio is 11.54 to 1.
By 2018, Niche rated Glenbrook North High School as the 48th Best Public High School in the United States. In 2016, Business Insider rated GBN 23 on the list of high schools with the best teachers in America.
Glenbrook International Academy of Sciences
The Glenbrook Academy of International Studies is a nationally recognized four-year program with students from Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South High Schools. About 30 new students are selected to attend the Academy class every year. Founded in 1981 to provide gifted students a more unusual learning alternative, it integrates teaching and learning English, Social Studies, and World Languages. Each class learns one of four different foreign language options: Spanish, French, German, and Mandarin.
Student Life
Activity
Glenbrook North offers over 75 extracurricular activities including clubs, honor communities, music organizations, sports-related activities, student publications, trips and shows.
Debate
The Glenbrook North High School debate team is one of the best in the history of the United States, and ranked the top 20th-grade debate schools based on performance at the National Speech and Debate Association. The School has won many state and national championships in Policy Debates, as well as state championships in Lincoln-Douglas and Public Debate Forums. This is the only state high school debate program ever to win the Triple Crown debate, sweeping the National Association and Debate Tournament, Tournament Champion, and Grand National Speech and Debate Tournament in 2004.
Since 1974, Glenbrook North has won at least one national championship in debates in fourteen individual years. GBN has won the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) championship in 18 of 35 years since 1982, and has been placed as runner up in the three years.
DECA
Glenbrook North is one of the best players at Illinois DECA. By 2014, Glenbrook North DECA has sent more than 30 members to the DECA International Careers Development Conference. Glenbrook North has a total of more than 150 DECA members. The school has received numerous awards at the International Career Development Conference (ICDC), ranked first in 2012 and third in 2014. Recently, a student team from GBN won an international championship in Sports and Entertainment Marketing in Nashville in 2016.
Philanthropy
The Glenbrook North students organize an annual food journey, collecting canned goods to benefit the Northfield Food's Pantry Food. In 2009, the school joined Glenbrook South High School to organize Foodstock, a charity concert featuring lead singer Fall Out Boy, Patrick Stump. Students from both schools came together to break the Guinness World Records for the largest pile of cans, building a structure where 59,084 cans were stacked in the form of two hand held cans.
Athletics
Glenbrook North is a member of the Central Suburban League. The school is also a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), which sponsors most sports tournaments and events in Illinois. William Lutz Stadium, which is home to Northern Glenbrook football, lacrosse, track & amp; field teams and football, named in honor of William Lutz, the first athletic director of the school.
Schools sponsor interscholastic teams for boys and girls in basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swimming & amp; diving, lacrosse, tennis, track & amp; field, volleyball, and water polo. Boys can also compete in baseball, soccer, and wrestling. Girls can compete in badminton, cheerleading, and softball.
In 2005, the school became a junior high school that signed up to Illinois to win a state championship in every ball, basketball and baseball. The following GBN teams have won IHSA-sponsored state championship tournaments in the years listed:
- Baseball: 1966, 1974
- Basketball (boy): 2005
- Football: 1974
- Hockey: 1984, 1985, 2007, 2008, 2015
- Soccer (boy): 1983
- Swimming & amp; Diving (women): 1978
- Tennis (boys): 1981, 1999, 2006
- Volleyball (boy): 1993
Basket
On December 28, 2005, the Glenbrook North basketball program got national media attention when Jon Scheyer scored 21 points in the last 75 seconds of a comeback effort against Proviso West. Scheyer dropped a point from the North Glenbrook basketball record for the most points in one game, scoring 52 points. The record is held by current Northwestern basketball head coach Chris Collins, who scored 53 in a match as a student at Glenbrook North. The Glenbrook North children's basketball team won the 2005 state championship, led by Scheyer, who is a NCAA national champion and two-time NCAA coach and coach at Duke. Spartans are trained by Dave Weber, brother of Bruce Weber, Kansas State's current men's basketball head coach. Glenbrook North completed the 2004-2005 season with a 32-2 record.
Hockey
Glenbrook North Hockey, the club team, won back to state titles in 1984 and 1985, the first university hockey team in Illinois to do so, and then again in 2007 and 2008. In 2011, 2013, and 2014, the team returned to the title game but lost to New Trier Trevians. By 2015, Glenbrook North Hockey defeated Benet Academy in a state title game in overtime, 3-2. The Spartan hockey program has won five Illinois state championships.
Golf
In 2013, senior Brian Ohr won the individual country champions class 3A boys. He shot 141 between two rounds. Ohr beat team-mate Nick Hardy, who finished third in the tournament. Hardy was more prominent than the two after leading the US Amateurs earlier that year. Ohr currently plays golf at Miami University while Hardy golf at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a freshman in Illinois from 2014-2015, Hardy won part of the Big Ten Championships.
Tennis
The Glenbrook North children's tennis program is considered a consistent powerhouse program in the state. This often results in a team of state caliber champions, having won three state titles in program history. The men's Glenbrook North tennis program is one of only two in IHSA's history to win three state titles with three different coaches. In 1980 and 1981, Dan Weiss won the single country championship for Glenbrook North. His brother Robby Weiss then won the single country championship in 1982. Robby Weiss went on to play college tennis at Pepperdine University, where he won a single NCAA national title. He then played on the ATP Tour as a professional for seven years. In 2002, Ryan Heller won the country singles championship for Glenbrook North. Heller is playing college tennis at the University of Michigan.
In 2015, senior Miguel Perez and David Zakhodin complete an unbeaten regular season as a double pair for the men's tennis team. Perez and Zakhodin finished the regular season at 26-0, with victories over each of the top doubles teams in the state, including Deerfield, Highland Park, Stevenson, Lake Forest twice, New Trier and three-time defending champions Hinsdale Central. Perez and Zakhodin's regular season includes a tournament victory at the prestigious Hersey Pitchford Invitational. Team No. 1 double Glenbrook North has only the last two games with three full sets. On May 30, 2015, Perez and Zakhodin advanced to the IHSA state championship against the Deerfield team they defeated during the regular season and in the sectional championship. Perez and Zakhodin were 36-0 together before losing in the state championship. Perez (40-1 as senior) and Zakhodin (37-1 as senior) are the most winning players in program history with 128 and 129 career victories, respectively. At the end of the 2015 state tournament, Zakhodin was awarded the IHSA Tom Pitchford Sportsmanship Award, selected by coaches across the state.
Famous Alumni
- Scott Adsit, 1984, actor/comedian
- Benjamin Agosto, attending first year and second year, silver medalist dancing ice at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
- Steven D. Binder, 1989, screenwriter, film and television producer
- Jayne Brook, 1978, actress
- Mike Brown (born 1985), NHL hockey player
- Chris Collins, 1992, head men's basketball coach for Northwestern University
- Dave Cruikshank, 1987, Winter Olympics 3-times in speeds changing
- William A. Edelstein, physicist, developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Andrew Gabel, Olympic silver medalist in speed
- Frank Galati, 1961, author, director, and award-winning actor Tony
- Ken Goldstein, 1987, director, author, author
- Anne Henning, 1973, Olympic gold and bronze medalist in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- John Hughes, 1968, film director and writer ( Pretty in Pink , Sixteen Candles , The Breakfast Club , National Lampoon's Holidays , Hari Ferris Bueller Inactive , Own Home )
- Zach Kaplan, 1997, Inventable CEO
- Jason Kipnis, 2005, MLB player for Indian Cleveland
- Ken Kurson, 1986, musician, editor of The New York Observer , political consultant
- Robert Kurson, 1981, author ( Crashing Through , Shadow Divers )
- Al Lewis, columnist, 1980, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch.com, and The Sunday Wall Street Journal
- Pat Misch, 1999, former Main League Baseball pitcher for New York Mets
- Don Ohlmeyer, 1962, producer and director of television, former president of NBC
- John Park, 2007, Korean solo artist
- Leah Poulos-Mueller, 1969, silver medalist three times in quick skating in 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics
- Doug Rader, 1962, Baseball Premier League manager and third baseman Golden Award winner
- Ryan Gary Raddon, 1989, a musician known as DJ Kaskade & gt;
- Yuriy Sardarov, 2006, actor best known for his role as "Otis" in Chicago Fire
- Scott Sanderson, 1974, All-Star Baseball League pitcher
- Jon Scheyer, 2006, American-Israeli McDonald's All American, All-American basketball player for national champions team 2009-10 Duke basketball
- John Seo, 2013, member of South Korean boy band NCT 127
- Ballard F. Smith, former president of San Diego Padres
- Michael T. Weiss, 1980, actor
- Jahan Yousaf, 2007, one of the founders of Krewella
- Yasmine Yousaf, 2007, co-founder of Krewella
Leading Faculty
- Brian James is the head boy basketball coach (1990-1995). He is currently an assistant coach for Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball.
- Vladimir Pyshnenko is the senior head coach for the district-operated Glenbrook Aquatics program. He won a gold medal and two silver medals in a swim at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996.
References
External links
- Glenbrook Township High School District 225
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