William Fremd High School | |
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Address | |
1000 S. Quentin Road , 60067 United States | |
Coordinates | 42°05′39″N 88°03′58″W / 42.0943°N 88.0661°W |
Information | |
School type | public secondary |
Opened | 1961[10] |
School district | Township H.S. 211 |
Superintendent | Lisa A. Small[1][2] |
Principal | Mark Langer[3] |
Teaching staff | 161.06 (on an FTE basis)[4] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Gender | coed |
Enrollment | 2,698 (2021–22)[4] |
Average class size | 22.0[5] |
Student to teacher ratio | 16.75[4] |
Campus | suburban |
Colour(s) | Forest Green Gold[6] |
Fight song | "Viking Fight Song" |
Athletics conference | Mid-Suburban League |
Mascot | Viking |
Publication | The Conspiracy[8] |
Newspaper | The Viking Logue[9] |
Yearbook | Valhallan[7] |
Average ACT | 25[11] |
Average SAT | 1178.5[12] |
Website | adc |
William Fremd High School, or Fremd (initially Palatine High School South), is a public four-year high school located in Palatine, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Township High School District 211, which also includes James B. Conant High School, Hoffman Estates High School, Palatine High School, and Schaumburg High School. Academically, Fremd High School has also been recognized by Newsweek as one of "America's Best High Schools" and by U.S. News & World Report as one of 99 outstanding high schools in the United States[13] with the average AP test taker in the class of 2018 taking 5.4 exams.[14] Fremd serves the portion of Palatine that is southwest of the UP NW Line railroad tracks as well as north Hoffman Estates, west Rolling Meadows, north Schaumburg, east South Barrington and southeast Inverness.[15] Feeder schools include Plum Grove Junior High, Carl Sandburg Junior High, Walter Sundling Junior High and Margaret Mead Junior High. Feeder elementary schools are Pleasant Hill, Paddock, Hunting Ridge, Central Road, Willow Bend, Thomas Jefferson, Marion Jordan, Fairview, and Frank C. Whiteley.