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Carl Sandburg High School

Carl Sandburg High School, Sandburg, or CSHS, is a public four-year high school located at the intersection of La Grange Road and 131st Street in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Consolidated High School District 230, which also includes Victor J. Andrew High School and Amos Alonzo Stagg High School.

History

Construction of Carl Sandburg High School began in May 1953 and by September 1954, classes were in session. Carl Sandburg himself attended the school's dedication in 1954. School legend suggests that Carl Sandburg, the school's namesake, once visited the school but lacked any form of identification. He was told to leave. Later that day, with an ID, he was welcomed in and an assembly was held in his honor.

Academics

In 2005, Sandburg had an average composite ACT score of 22.3 and graduated 98.1% of its senior class. The average class size is 19.2. Sandburg has made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Sandburg is the #1 ranked high school in the south suburbs on the Prairie State Achievement Exam.

Sandburg has been named one of Newsweek's top 1,000 schools on several occasions in recent years.

2003, Sandburg was ranked 607
2005, Sandburg was ranked 757
2006, Sandburg was ranked 967
2007, Sandburg was ranked 1037

Athletics

Sandburg has 30 athletic teams, of 14 boys and 16 girls teams, which play in the Southwest Suburban Conference, SouthWest Suburban Conference - Blue Division (football), and Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Sandburg's mascot is the Eagle.

Since 1985, Sandburg athletic teams have won 152 IHSA Sectional Championships and 12 State Team Championships.

Sandburg Fight Song

Stand up for Sandburg

The mighty gold and the blue;

Let's cheer our team to VICTORY

And to this emblem we'll be true

Come on and win now, you Eagles;

You've got to fight on for our fame.

Our team will fight on to VICTORY

Go Sandburg High and win this game!

State Championships

Team Championships

Carl Sandburg High School Team State Championships
Year	Sport
1993	Boys Soccer
1996	Boys Volleyball
1999	Boys Volleyball
1999	Girls Volleyball
2000	Boys Volleyball
2002	Boys Baseball
2002	Boys Soccer
2003	Boys Soccer
2005	Wrestling
2006	Wrestling
2006	Competitive Cheerleading
2007	Wrestling
2007	Debate Public Forum
2008	Debate Public Forum

Individual Championships

Carl Sandburg High School Individual State Championships
Year	Individual	Sport / Event	Notes
1961	Ron Semetis	Boys Wrestling	127 lb.
1963	Jim Semetis	Boys Wrestling	133 lb.
1964	Alan Bulow	Boys Wrestling	165 lb.
1976	Tom Graves	Boys Cross Country	(Class AA)
1976	Tom Graves	Boys Track & Field	(Class AA) 2-mile run
1977	Tom Graves	Boys Cross Country	(Class AA)
1977	Tom Graves	Boys Track & Field	(Class AA) 2-mile run
1977	Bob Hicks	Boys Track & Field	(Class AA) 1-mile run
1977	Scott McGhee	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 138 lb.
1978	Tom Graves	Boys Track & Field	(Class AA) 1-mile run
1978	Jeff Guidish	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 155 lb.
1978	Carole O'Connor	Girls Track & Field	(Class AA) High Jump
1978	Don Stevens	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 112 lb.
1979	Tom Graves	Boys Track & Field	(Class AA) 2-mile run
1979	Don Stevens	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 119 lb.
1984	Joe White	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 126 lb.
1993	Tommy Lee	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 103 lb.
1997	Jocelyn Prince	Speech	Dramatic Interpretation (co-champion)
1999	Brian Corcoran	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 215 lb.
2001	Pete Friedl	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 171 lb.
2002	Lisa Anne Berube	Speech	Original Oratory
2003	April Hurt	Girls Gymnastics	Vault
2004	Beth Palecek	Speech	Humorous Interpretation
2005	Michael McAuliffe	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 103 lb.
2005	Brandon Precin	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 125 lb.
2006	Matt Cusick	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 140 lb.
2006	Stanley Polit	Speech	Humorous Interpretation
2006	Conrad Polz	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 135 lb.
2006	Brandon Precin	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 130 lb.
2007	Matt Cusick	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 145 lb.
2007	Conrad Polz	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 140 lb.
2007	Deanna Becker	Debate	Public Forum
2007	Scott Siebert	Debate	Public Forum
2007	Kristen Sutherland	Girls Cross Country	(Class AA)
2008	Jon Morrison	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 119 lb.
2008	Conrad Polz	Boys Wrestling	(Class AA) 160 lb.
2008	Deanna Becker	Debate	Public Forum

Activities

Theater

1997-1998

Fall Play, Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Spring Musical, Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein

1998-1999

Fall Play, Through Our Eyes by Cast
Spring Musical, Oliver! by Lionel Bart

1999-2000

Fall Play, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Spring Musical, Gypsy by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents

2000-2001

Fall Play, Teenage Wasteland by Anne Tyler and Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang
Spring Musical, My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Loewe

2001-2002

Fall Play, The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
Spring Musical, West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim

2002-2003

Fall Play, You Can't Take It with You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Spring Musical, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Herbert Kretzmer

2003-2004

Fall Play, Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
Spring Musical, Jekyll & Hyde by Steve Cuden, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse

2004-2005

Fall Play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
Spring Musical, Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

2005-2006

Fall Play, The Bacchae by Euripides
Spring Musical, Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein

2006-2007

Fall Play, The Complete History of America (Abridged) by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor
Spring Musical, Guys and Dolls by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser

2007-2008