Mather High School | |
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5835 N.
Lincoln Avenue , 60659 | |
Coordinates | 41°59′17″N 87°42′04″W / 41.9880°N 87.7011°W |
Information | |
School type | Public Secondary |
Motto | "Celebrating Diversity" |
Opened | 1959 |
School district | Chicago Public Schools |
CEEB code | 141307 [1] |
Principal | Peter J Auffant [2] |
Grades | 9– 12 |
Gender | Coed |
Enrollment | 1,448 (2018–2019) |
Campus type | Urban |
Color(s) |
Royal blue White [3] |
Athletics conference | Chicago Public League [3] |
Team name | Rangers [3] |
Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [4] |
Yearbook | Dais [5] |
Website |
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Stephen Tyng Mather High School (commonly known as simply Mather) is a public 4–year high school located in the West Ridge neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1959, Mather is operated by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district. Mather is named in honor of Stephen Mather, an industrialist and conservationist who became the first director of the National Park Service.
Mather is a neighborhood high school with a college preparatory emphasis. More than 75% of students speak a language other than English at home. Mather's Bilingual/English as a Second Language ( ESL) program is central to the school's curriculum. The school campus shares two acres (56,000 m2) with adjacent Mather Park. The school has teachers fluent in languages such as Chinese, Arabic, Assyrian, Spanish, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Gujarati, and Urdu.
Advanced placement (AP) classes are offered:
Virtual High School classes are offered in a wide variety of subjects at various ability levels.
Mather competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The school sport teams are nicknamed the Rangers. The boys' baseball team were public league champions in 1966–67. The boys' cross country team were regional champs in (2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16)The girls' soccer team were public league champions in 2000–01. During the 2000–01 season, The girls' softball team were Class AA and public league champions. The girls' volleyball team were Class AA and public league champions twice (1995–96, 2001–02). The school's chess team were Class AA champions in 1991–92. The boys' soccer team were public league champions five times (1983–84, 1985–86, 1988–89, 2000–01, 2011–12) and State champions once (2011–12). The boys' golf team were public league champions in 1974. The boys' tennis team were public league champions twice (1973–74, 1974–75). [6]
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(Monday–Saturday only)Berland, a 1979 graduate of Stephen T. Mather High School, 5835 N Lincoln Ave., has had big visions most of his life.
(p. 2) He graduated from high school after negotiating a deal with his principal -- if he got straight A's in the group home school for two years, he would get to go to the real high school, Mather High, across the street. He describes that time in his first book, a slim, street-tough novel called Jones Inn published two years ago.
Chicago has been the scene of many great soccer games by Frank Klopas - just none for a while. Klopas scored 70 goals in a spectacular high school career at Mather that culminated in the 1983 Public League championship.