ADDISON TRAIL HIGH SCHOOL

'Addison Trail High School', or 'ATHS', is a public four-year high school located approximately half a mile east of Interstate 355/Illinois Route 53 at the intersection of Army Trail Road and Lombard Road in Addison, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of School District 88, which also includes Willowbrook High School.

Contents

History

Academics

Athletics

Activities

Notable alumni

References

External links

History

Addison Trail opened in 1966 and was originally to be named Army Trail High School^[1]
, after the street that is situated on.

Academics

In 2005, Addison Trail had an average composite ACT score of 19.9 and graduated 85.8% of its senior class. The average class size is 21.5. Addison Trail has not made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.^[2]

Athletics

Addison Trail's athletic teams play in the West Suburban (Gold) Division, and Illinois High School Association. Addison Trail's mascot is Bucky the Blazer.
Addison Trail currently has the 13th most overall state titles in Illinois history. Addison Trail's football team was state runner-up in 1983 losing to East St. Louis High School and again in 1997 to Lincoln Way High School. The football team has dominated the West Suburban Gold Conference as of late winning conference two of the last three years.
The boys gymnastics team won 7 state titles and the girls have 5. (boys: 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986 [1]; girls 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1991 [2]).

Activities

★ Action Club

★ Art Club

★ Best Buddies

★ Blazettes

★ Break Dancers

★ Business Professionals of America

★ Celebration

★ Cheerleading

★ Debate Club

★ Drama Club/Crew

★ FCCLA Club

★ Flags

★ LCA Club

★ Marching Band/Pep Band

★ Orchesis

★ Newspaper (Torch)

★ LASO

Notable alumni

★ Mark Anelli, 1997, St.Louis Rams tight end. All Big Ten performer at University of Wisconsin.

★ Mark Rodenhauser, NFL player from 1987-1999. Played for Chicago Bears, Carolina Panthers and Detroit Lions.

★ James Millns, 1967, Winner of 1976 Winter Olympics bronze medal in figure skating.

★ Rocco Sisto, 1970, Actor, Played Richie Gazzo in Donnie Brasco and young Junior Soprano in "The Sopranos".

★ Mike Retondo, 1999, Member of the rock band Plain White T's.

★ Dan Rumishek, 1998, All Big Ten football player at the University of Michigan, later played for the Chicago Bears.

★ Brian Taylor, 1998, 4 year letter winner at Stanford University (football). Won Pacific-10 Conference title in 1999 and played in 2000 Rose Bowl Game.

★ Lenae Williams, 1998, Former WNBA first round draft pick.

★ Jim Ellison, Founder and Lead Singer of the rock band Material Issue.

★ Andrew Glogowski, 2003, Professional Texas Hold'em Player.

★ Koji Kraft, 2000, Has appeared in numerous BMX competitions including the X Games.

References

1. Original Blue Prints
2. Illinois School Report Card

External links

★ Official website

★ IHSFW.com's Addison Trail football page (news website)