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Niles West High School

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Niles West High School
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Niles West High School (NWHS), officially Niles Township High School West, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago, in the United States. NWHS is part of the Niles Township Community High School District 219, which also includes Niles North High School. The name of the school teams originally was the Indians, which later was changed to the Wolves, in 2001. The feeder middle-schools for NWHS are Lincoln Junior High School (Skokie), Fairview South School (Skokie), Lincoln Hall Middle School (Lincolnwood), Culver Middle School (Niles), and Park View School (Morton Grove). Niles West High School also matriculates many students from MCC Academy, Morton Grove, Illinois.

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History

Niles West High School sits on over an acre of land. The school opened in the fall of 1958.

In 1996, the Niles Township Federation of Teachers went on a strike for two weeks over negotiations with administrators. During that time numerous students staged a walkout and pledged their allegiance to Niles West. Strikes have also happened in 1979 and 1985 with similar results.

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Academics

In 2007, Niles West had an average composite ACT score of 22.3, and graduated 93.2% of its senior class.[5] The average class size was 19.2.[5] In 2012, Newsweek ranked Niles West on its list of the Top 1000 Public Schools in the nation.

As of 2011, many 8th or 7th graders have been attending Niles West High School as part as an off-level program.[6]

Athletics

Niles West competes in the Central Suburban League and Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Wolves.

Until the end of the 19992000 school year, the sports teams were known as Niles West Indians, a name which was changed to the Wolves so as not to offend Native Americans.[7]

Niles West sponsors interscholastic athletic teams for boys and girls in basketball, cheerleading, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, water polo, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. Boys may also compete in baseball and football. Girls can also compete on the wrestling team and may compete in softball. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors a poms team for girls.[8]

The baseball team has won two IHSA state championships (1971–72 and 197475).[9] The girls basketball team won the IHSA state championship in 1978-79.[9]

Niles West also won the IHSA state championship for boys gymnastics in 2016.[10]

Notable alumni

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References

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