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Schaumburg High School
Saxon Mascot
Address
1100 W. Schaumburg Rd.   Schaumburg , Illinois 60194   United States
Coordinates	42°01′42″N 88°06′26″W / 42.0283°N 88.10722°W / 42.0283; -88.10722
Information
School type	Public secondary
Opened	September 17, 1970
School district	Twp. H.S. District 211
Superintendent	Dr. Lisa A. Small[1][2]
Principal	Brian Harlan [3]
Staff	206[4]
Teaching staff	146.24 (FTE)[5]
Grades	9–12
Gender	Coed
Enrollment	2,355 (2023-2024)[5]
Average class size	30[6]
Student to teacher ratio	16.10[5]
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Cardinal red	gold[8]
Slogan	"We are SHS"[8]
Fight song	Saxon Victory Song[8]
Athletics conference	Mid-Suburban League
Mascot	Siegie Saxon[9]
Nickname	Saxons[8]
Publication	Variations[10]
Newspaper	Saxon Scribe[11]
Yearbook	Shimmer[10]
Website	adc.d211.org/Domain/11

Schaumburg High School, also known as SHS, is a public four-year high school located in Schaumburg, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, United States. The school is part of Township High School District 211, which also includes William Fremd High School, Hoffman Estates High School, Palatine High School, and James B. Conant High School.

Schaumburg High School opened on September 17, 1970, located 31 miles northwest of downtown Chicago near Woodfield. It is accredited by the North Central Association and has earned full recognition status by the State Superintendent of Schools in the State of Illinois.^[4]

SHS serves students who reside in Schaumburg, the south side of Hoffman Estates and northern Hanover Park.

In 1993, the United States Department of Education recognized Schaumburg High School as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.^[12] In 1996, SHS was recognized by Redbook magazine as one of "America's Best Schools." In 1999, they were one of 96 high schools nationwide recognized as an outstanding high school by U.S. News & World Report.^[4]

In late 2008, SHS underwent a massive reconstruction product in which 13 new classrooms, a new grand foyer, busport, administration center, three new science labs, and handicap accessibility were added to the high school. This was a part of the larger District 211 construction projects on Conant, Hoffman Estates, and Schaumburg High schools.^[13]

Every two years Schaumburg also donates to the St. Baldrick's Foundation. In 2012, Schaumburg raised over $100,000 giving them second place in the state of Illinois for most money raised. In 2022, they raised $71,497 for St. Baldrick's Foundation^[14][15] and in 2024 raised $75,033.^[16]

Schaumburg High School was ranked 486 in the nation during the year 2012 by Newsweek's Best High Schools.^[17] In 2015, SHS had an average composite ACT score of 22.1, and graduated 96.5% of its senior class.^[4]

Schaumburg has been recognized as making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) according to the provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.^[18]

In the 2022-2023 school year, the school had 2,340 students. 47% of students identified as non-Hispanic white, 26% were Hispanic or Latino, 17% were Asian, 5% were multiracial, and 5% were black or African-American. The school has a student to teacher ratio of 16.1, and 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunches.^[19]

Schaumburg currently has 62 clubs & activities ^[20] and 24 athletic organizations. Schaumburg High School is a member of the Mid-Suburban League. SHS is also a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), which governs most interscholastic sports and activities in the state. Its mascot is Siegie Saxon and they are known as the Saxons.^[4]

Schaumburg sponsors interscholastic athletic teams for young men and women in basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, wrestling, & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and water polo. Young men may compete in baseball, football, while young women may compete in badminton, bowling, and softball. The school also sponsors teams for young men and women in lacrosse, though this sport is not sponsored by the IHSA.^[21]

The following teams have finished in the top four of their respective state tournament or meet.^[22]

• Baseball: 2nd place (1988–89); State Champions (1996–97); 7th place (2005–06)
• Basketball (boys): 4th place (1998–99); State Champions (2000–01)
• Bowling (girls): 3rd place (1973–74, 1982–83, 2006–07, 2017–18); 2nd place (1972–73, 2007–08); State Champions (2003–04)
• Cross Country (boys): 4th place (1980–81, 1995–96); 3rd place (1992–93, 1998–99, 2006–07); 2nd place (1981–82, 1991–92, 1999–2000); State Champions (1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89)
• Cross Country (girls): 4th place (1984–85, 2002–03); 2nd place (1986–87, 1991–92); State Champions (1982–83, 1999–2000, 2010–11)
• Debate (Congressional): State Champions (2015, 2016, 2017)
• Debate (Lincoln-Douglas): State Champions (2012, 2022, 2023), 2nd Place (2014, 2015, 2021, 2025)
• Debate (Public Forum): State Champions (2014), 2nd Place (2013)
• Field Hockey (girls): State Champions (1977–78) -- discontinued by the IHSA
• Football: 2nd place (1999–2000)
• Gymnastics (girls): 3rd place (2010–11)
• Ice Hockey (boys) : State Runner Up (1987)
• Soccer (girls): 4th place (1988–89, 1991–92); 3rd place (1990–91); State Champions (1992–93)
• Poms: 1st place (2008)(2011)
• Flags: 1st place in lyrical flag, tall flag, and State Grand Champions (2009–10), 1st place in lyrical flag, 3rd in tall flag, and State Grand Champions (2010–11)
• Business Professionals of America: State Champion in Interview Skills (2004–2005). State finalists in four events (2013–2014).^[23]

• Reshma Saujani, CEO of Girls Who Code and author of Brave Not Perfect, graduated SHS in 1993.
• Chris Mueller (soccer) is an American professional soccer player who for plays for the Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer.
• Alexandra Billings is the first transgender woman to play a transgender character on television.^[24]
• Susan Downey (née Levin) is a film producer; she was 1991 valedictorian at SHS and is married to actor Robert Downey Jr.^[25]
• Nadia Geller (née MacNider) is an interior designer, known for television shows such as While You Were Out, Trading Spaces, and Home Made Simple.
• Paul Justin is a former NFL quarterback (1995–2001) who played for Arizona State University.^[25]
• Kurt Kittner is a former NFL quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons (2002–03) who played for the University of Illinois.^[25]
• Hamid Mehreioskouei is a former professional footballer for the Chicago Fire Soccer Club^[25]
• Sam Phalen is a sports media and reality television personality known for appearing on Survivor 47 in 2024.
• Erin Merryn is a sexual-abuse education activist and lobbyist for Erin's Law, now passed in 37 states and pending in 13 more. People Magazine named her one of fifteen women changing the world. US Senator Gillibrand passed federal version of Erin’s Law in 2015 federally funding it.
• Markos Moulitsas is founder and primary author of the Daily Kos political blog.^[25]
• Dr. Christopher J. Schneider is a professor of sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, known for research and publications on social media and crime.^[26][27][28]
• Shane Madej, co-host of Buzzfeed Unsolved and co-founder of Watcher Entertainment.
• Mike Carden, guitarist of rock band The Academy Is....^[29]
• Faith Colson, advocate who was the driving force behind the passage of Faith's Law.

• Official website
• District Website Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
• Official website of Schaumburg's newspaper, the Saxon scribe

Johnsburg
Village
Location of Johnsburg in McHenry County, Illinois.
Coordinates: 42°22′35″N 88°14′50″W / 42.37639°N 88.24722°W / 42.37639; -88.24722[1]
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	McHenry
Area [2]
• Total	7.84 sq mi (20.32 km2)
• Land	7.25 sq mi (18.78 km2)
• Water	0.60 sq mi (1.54 km2)
Elevation [1]	810 ft (250 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	6,355
• Density	876.67/sq mi (338.47/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	60050, 60051
Area code	815
FIPS code	17-38479
GNIS feature ID	2398304[1]
Website	www.johnsburg.org

Johnsburg is a village in McHenry County, Illinois, with a population of 6,355 as of the 2020 U.S. census.^[3]

The area that came to be known as Johnsburg was first settled in 1841, five years after the founding of McHenry County, by immigrant families escaping religious persecution and oppressive social conditions in the Eifel region of Germany, predominantly the Mayen-Koblenz." (The congregation is known today as St. John the Baptist.) They built their first church in 1842, a simple log cabin that also functioned as a school and meeting hall. The first priest to serve this new congregation was delivered there by friendly Native Americans who found him lost in the woods of Wisconsin.^[4] The church served the community until 1850, when a larger frame church was built to replace it. Construction on a third church, built in the Gothic style, began in 1867. This church took thirteen years to complete and was the pride of the Johnsburg community until it was destroyed by a fire on February 19, 1900. Many of the early settlers' grave markers were also destroyed by the fire.^[5] The present St. John the Baptist church was dedicated in 1902.

By 1990, a group of citizens living in this unincorporated area of McHenry County had come to fear that their community, known for over 100 years as Johnsburg, would be swallowed or divided by surrounding municipalities. They turned to their neighbors in Sunnyside, an adjacent village with which they shared a library, schools, and other services, for solutions. (Sunnyside had been incorporated in 1956.) Sunnyside and Johnsburg leaders struck an informal agreement that allowed Sunnyside to annex the surrounding area, thereby tripling its size, but required it to rename itself Johnsburg. After Sunnyside completed the annexation in 1992, the Sunnyside Village Board legally renamed its municipality to Johnsburg.^[6]

According to the 2010 census, Johnsburg has a total area of 7.674 square miles (19.88 km²), of which 7.08 square miles (18.34 km²) (or 92.26%) is land and 0.594 square miles (1.54 km²) (or 7.74%) is water.^[7] Johnsburg lies within the watershed of the Fox river.^[8]

• Richmond Road
• Ringwood Road
• McCullom Lake Road
• Johnsburg Road
• Spring Grove Road
• Chapel Hill Road
• Bay Road
• Riverside Drive

As of October 2018, a Pace bus route between the nearby municipalities of Crystal Lake, McHenry, and Fox Lake also serves Johnsburg. The closest rail transit is the McHenry commuter rail station, one of the termini of Metra's Union Pacific/Northwest Line.^[9][10]

As of the census^[15] of 2000, there were 5,391 people, 1,760 households, and 1,501 families residing in the village. The population density was 973.7 inhabitants per square mile (375.9/km²). There were 1,875 housing units at an average density of 338.6 per square mile (130.7/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.83% White, 0.13% African American, 0.06% Native American, 0.19% Asian, 0.17% from other races, and 0.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.52% of the population.

There were 1,760 households, out of which 44.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.9% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.7% were non-families. 11.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.06 and the average family size was 3.32.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 30.6% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 26.4% from 45 to 64, and 7.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.4 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $69,864, and the median income for a family was $73,491. Males had a median income of $51,832 versus $30,893 for females. The per capita income for the village was $27,582. About 1.1% of families and 1.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.1% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Four schools are part of District 12, which serves students in the Villages of Johnsburg and Ringwood and in the Pistakee Highlands. Johnsburg High School serves grades 9 - 12; known as the "Skyhawks." Johnburg Junior High School, the "Wildcats," serves 6 - 8. Up until 2016, James C. Bush Elementary School served grades 3 and 4 (grade 5 was located at JJHS).^[16] Johnsburg Elementary School, the "Bloodhounds", now serves grades 3 - 5.^[17] Johnsburg Ringwood Primary Center also known as "The Ringwood Rockets" serves children from PreK - grade 2. The start of the 2008–09 school year brought the steepest enrollment in District 12 schools in five years, when 93 fewer students enrolled.^[18]

Tom Waits wrote a song called "Johnsburg, Illinois" in 1982. He included it on his album of the following year Swordfishtrombones. It is a short, poignant love poem to his wife, Kathleen Brennan, who grew up in the village.^[19]

• Kathleen Brennan, musician, songwriter, record producer, and artist
• C. J. Fiedorowicz, retired tight end for the Houston Texans of the NFL
• Clay Guida ("The Carpenter,"), mixed martial artist , lived in Johnsburg^[20]
• Chuck Hiller, second baseman, coach, and manager with several teams
• John Jakus, coach, Florida Atlantic University
• Sam Saboura, current host of TLC's Something Borrowed, Something New^[21]

• Johnsburg official website