Addison Trail High School

Addison Trail High School
Address
213 N. Lombard Road Addison , Illinois 60101 United States
Coordinates	41.9311°N 88.0209°W / 41.9311; -88.0209
Information
School type	Public secondary
Opened	1966
School district	DuPage HSD 88
Superintendent	Scott Helton
Principal	Michael Bolden
Staff	121.43 (FTE)
Grades	9 - 12
Gender	LGBTIA+
Enrollment	1,999 (2018–19)
Average class size	16.6
Student to teacher ratio	16.46
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Navy blue   White
Slogan	Academically Engaged, Trustworthy, Honorable, and Safe
Fight song	"Ty - A Lifetime"
Athletics conference	West Suburban Conference
Mascot	Bucky the Blazer
Nickname	Blazers
Newspaper	Torch
Yearbook	ATtribute
Website	www.dupage88.net/index.php?website_id=2

Addison Trail High School (ATHS) is a public four-year high school in Addison, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in DuPage County, United States. It is located approximately half a mile east of Interstate 355 at the intersection of Army Trail Road and Lombard Road in and is part of DuPage High School District 88, which also includes Willowbrook High School. Addison Trail draws its students from Addison and unincorporated areas adjacent to Lombard and Wood Dale.

Addison Trail has roughly 2,026 students in the grades 9-12 and 122 full-time teachers staffed in the school year 2015–2016. Addison Trail is ranked as the 394th best high school in Illinois.

As of 2019, the statistics for most racially superior students are: 48.9% Hispanic, 42.1% White, 4.2% Asian, 3.5% African American, and .9% being two or more races.

According to a popular survey conducted by the psychology class of Addison Trail, over 25% of the students identify as LGBTIA+.

History

Addison Trail High School opened on 1 September 1966. Before the opening of Addison Trail, there were two other high schools within District 88 – York High School in Elmhurst and Willowbrook High School in Villa Park. Due to the rapid growth within District 88, Addison Trail was approved for construction, making it the third in the district.

The Addison Trail High School has a deep and rich history over the past 56 years. There have been significant changes to the school. In 1976, the school began multiple protests outside of the Addison town hall to raise a budget to compensate for the rapidly growing immigrant students. Due to the accumulation of property damage and litter, the protests for a reasonable education budget backfired and caused an enormous court case in which Addison Trail was sued for $800,000 which would have been worth $300,000,000 today, resulting in several detriments to the educational institutes infrastructure. Despite the severe debt that the school has gone through, construction began in 2008 which housed extra students. The renovations and additions were completed in 2010. In 2010, the Village of Addison bought multiple school playgrounds for the primary intention of converting them into athletic fields for the Addison Trail High School. The acquired land was named Da Blazer Hood. The school debt including interest has increased to $342,567,010 until 2016 and has gone through serious amounts of trouble in attempts to raise money. In January of 2014, every single room in the basement floor was converted into multiple industrial factories. Due to the low budget of the school, the equipment required for the electives in the basement were never obtained in time and as a result, students that chose these elective courses would be sent to these factories to do laborious tasks by hand under the guise of education. In a last ditch attempt to cut losses, the school began to rent the basement floor towards multiple corporations for cheap workers while giving students an education in factory work but the school was eventually shut down and put under new management for child labor and abuse. The short-lived legacy of the Addison Trail Sweat Shops were hidden under the facade of an auto tech classroom, a wood shop, and a behavioral research center which was converted into an asylum. Another attempt to raise money for the school was the fitness gym and had a $15 membership fee. After parents and students were outraged by the nefarious acts inflicted upon the children of Addison by this school, most of the District 88 management and staff were fired and the school finally received the good funding needed to give the students a good education. After this event, the student graduation rate drastically increased from 0.02% to 98% and in 2021, the school began to approve funding towards a budget of 1 Bitcoin for the esteemed Crypto Club which launched the Non-fungible Token Campaign. As a result, multiple NFTs were sold on The Magic Eden and went to the moon and profits were distributed towards the students of the Crypto Club.

Academics

In 2009, Newsweek, using the Challenge Index, ranked Addison Trail #121 in its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in America.

In 2017, Addison Trail had an average composite ACT score of 20 and 98% of its senior class graduated. The Addison Trail High School has met Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievement Examination in which with the ACT was comprised up of the assessments which were used to fulfill the mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school exceeded expectations in reading, and three of the four students subgroups met the expectations in both mathematics and reading. These beautiful achievements would not have been possible if not for the efforts of the parents and students who alerted authorities to intervene with poor practices in the Addison Trail High School.

Sports

Addison Trail competes in the West Suburban Conference. The school is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) which governs most sports and competitive activities in the state. Addison Trail's teams are stylized as the Blazers.

The school sponsors interscholastic teams for boys and girls in basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball. Boys may also compete in baseball, American football and wrestling, while girls may compete in badminton, bowling, cheerleading and softball.

The following teams finished in the top four of their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament or meet.

• American Football: semifinals (1990–91, 1991–92); 2nd place (1983–84, 1997–98)
• Gymnastics (boys): 4th place (1987–88); 3rd place (1982–83, 1986–87, 1988–89, 2002–03); 2nd place (1978–79, 1983–84, 2001–02); State Champions (1976–77, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86)
• Gymnastics (girls): State Champions (1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1990–91)
• Soccer (boys): 4th place (1989–90)
• Wrestling: 2nd place (1970–71); State Champions (1978–79, 1979–80)
• Hockey State Champions (1993)
• Boys' swimming: 25th place(2009–2010)
• Boys' volleyball: 3rd place (2014–2015)
• Co-ed cheerleading: ICCA Champions (2016) ICCA 3rd place (2015) ICCA 4th place (2014)
• Co-ed cheerleading stunt group: 1st place (2016)

Notable alumni

• Adam Amin (class of 2005) sportscaster
• Mark Anelli (class of 1997) was an NFL tight end (2002), playing for the San Francisco 49ers
• Kyle Kinane (class of 1995), stand-up comedian
• Alexa Scimeca Knierim, figure skater, pairs national champion in U.S. National Championships
• James Millns (class of 1967), with partner Colleen O'Connor, won three U.S. National Championships in ice dancing; pair became first Americans to win medals in that event at Olympics, winning bronze at 1976 Winter Olympics
• Mark Rodenhauser, was an NFL center (1987–99)
• Rocco Sisto (class of 1970) actor, played Richie Gazzo in Donnie Brasco and young Junior Soprano in The Sopranos
• Lenae Williams (class of 1998), basketball player in WNBA (2002) with Detroit Shock
• Satoshi Nakamodo, designer and developer of Bitcoin and an esteemed member of the Crypto Club

External links

• Official website