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Wheaton Warrenville South High School

Wheaton, IL
  • Public
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  • Grades 9-12
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  • Enrollment: 1982

Overview

Wheaton Warrenville South High School
1920 Wiesbrook Road South
Wheaton, IL 60189
(630) 784-7200
Wheaton Warrenville South High School is located in Wheaton, IL and serves grades 9-12.It received a GreatSchool rating of 8 out of 10
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Student Diversity

Race

Percentage

Native American
0%
Two or more races
5%
Black
5%
Asian
6%
Hispanic
20%
White
64%

Reviews11 Reviews

3.0
other
The way they deal with mental health is god awful. The counselors are terrible. If you aren’t white, from medium or high income family and good at sports, it’s very hard to fit in and feel welcome here.
parent
All of our kid’s have gone here. Our middle child didn’t want to leave this school when it was time.
student
Once you get past the football team, WWS is a garden variety mediocre suburban high school. Too much focus on sports (50/50) rather than academics (90/10). Home schooling and private schools are popular in Wheaton, so look especially at Benet Academy (Catholic) in Lisle. This school sends most of its best students to U of I rather than Northwestern or Ivies and the rest go to regional state schools, while the comment about diversity is painfully accurate. Wheaton is upper middle class, white, conservative, and Christian. They don t teach evolution in biology classes, seemingly everyone is in a Bible study, and kids pray around the flag pole every morning and before and after football games. If you fit the mold, you ll be fine. Otherwise you ll be forever chafing up against that majority culture. With an increasing percentage of both Hispanic and low income kids, this is an issue that will likely get worse. I went to a top 25 university on a partial scholarship, and in retrospect can honestly say that I did nearly all of it myself. This is textbook impersonal factory-style public education and students who truly achieve are going against the grain in this school.
parent
I believe that it will always come down to the parents. To the extent they are involved, they show the kids that it matters what they are up to. Like any other, the school has great, mediocre and poor teachers. The social environment reflects the narcissism that attends the affluence of the district. Little conversation for "what is it like to be you?" Discouraging to be sure, but unexpected? The superintendent just left after 4 years for a pay bump, with the gall to lecture us at graduation, well past his welcome, about a book he had read about keys to success. Wasn't he feelin' it? Tone-deafness matched only by irony. If parents insist the kids take good care of their "stuff", and accomplish much, that the kids would value good grades and nice things is no great surprise. The good ones will make the effort to be nice, but few will harbor any commitment to making a difference, or to sacrificing these "things" for something greater than themselves. we will continue to produce serviceable, competent, industrious citizens, our economy well-served. And it is unlikely they will ever inquire of themselves "just how much am I willing to give up for what really matters to me"?
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