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In 1953, School District 170 served 2,833 students, and in 2004 the district served 3,550 students. [citation needed] Dollie Helsel retired as superintendent in 2007. Tom Amadio, an alumnus of Bloom High School and formerly the assistant superintendent of Chicago Heights district, became the superintendent in 2007. [2]
Flossmoor School District 161 is a school district headquartered in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the Chicago metropolitan area. [2] It serves Chicago Heights and Flossmoor. [3] Homewood-Flossmoor High School is separate, controlled by its own school district.
In 2016 the school received its current gymnasium with stage, eight additional classrooms, and a multipurpose room. Co-principal Cheryl L. Muench stated that Michelle Obama School had a "relaxed atmosphere". [3] Grades 4-5. Barack Obama School of Leadership and STEM; Grades Kindergarten to 3. 21st Century Primary Center; Blackhawk Primary Center
Chicago Heights lies on the high land of the Tinley Moraine, with the higher and older Valparaiso Moraine lying just to the south of the city.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Chicago Heights has a total area of 10.30 square miles (26.68 km 2), of which 10.28 square miles (26.63 km 2) (or 99.87%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.13%) is water.
In 1949, after making a request to Samuel Stritch, Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, a priest at St. Agnes parish in Chicago Heights was given permission to purchase land and begin raising funds for the construction of a coed high school. By 1951 enough capital had been raised to hire a local architect to design the building.
It is part of Bloom Township High School District 206. The school was founded in 1900. A second Chicago Heights high school, Bloom Trail, was established in 1976 to offset overcrowding. [4] Since 1995, however, Bloom and Bloom Trail have shared the same sports programs, drawing from over 3,000 students [5] [6] in grades 9 to 12.
Licking Heights High School's Sakariye Abdullahi, was the winner in this week's Dispatch's Student of the Week poll.. Abdullahi secured 3,727 votes, or 40%, of the 9,309 votes cast to top Aubrey ...
In the 2022-2023 school year, there were 3,178 students enrolled at the school. In the same year, 87% of students identified as Hispanic or Latino, 10% were black or African-American, 2% were Asian, and 1% were non-Hispanic white. 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. The school has a student to teacher ratio of 16.4. [11]