Lane Tech College Preparatory High School Print

Contact Information

Principal: Dr. Antoinette LoBosco
Admissions Director: Mollie Hart
Phone: 773-534-5400
Web site: www.lanetech.org
Address: 2501 West Addison Street, Chicago, IL 60618
Freshman class size: 1,200
Total enrollment: 4,278 (grades 9 - 12)

 

Admissions

The average score of an admitted student has risen from 875 in 2004-2005 to 909 in 2009-2010 (+ 34 points) on the 1,000 point admissions scale with some fairly dramatic increases in the past two years. After adjusting for the new 900 point scale, this past year (2010-2011), the average score remained fairly flat at 815 points.

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Lane Tech Heritage

Lane Tech is the largest high school in Illinois and the Lane Tech Alumni Association, with over 5,900 active members, is the largest high school alumni association in the United States. Lane Tech was founded in 1908 as a boys' vocational institute, offering preparation in trades including carpentry, cabinet making, foundry, forge, welding, etc. In 1930, Lane Tech's mission changed from technical institute to college preparatory school. Despite this transition, traces of its technical heritage remain in its emphasis on hands-on application.

Programs

Concentrations are offered in six areas: honors, college core, technology, architecture/engineering, art, and music. Lane Tech offers Advanced Placement (AP) courses in English, history, math, science, art, music, computer science and world languages. Each year, Lane seniors earn about $3 million in scholarships. More PhDs have graduated from Lane than from any other high school in the nation. Scientifically inclined students may be attracted by Lane's special Alpha Program, an intensive science program, open via competitive admissions to 28 freshman students. In addition to an advanced curriculum, Alpha Program students complete a scientific paper and Science Fair project based on original research.

Activities/Clubs/Sports

Students can choose to join one of 30 Ethnic Clubs including Chinese, Dominican Republic, French, German, Polish, and Ukrainian. The Lane Athletic Department sponsors teams in all sports offered by the Chicago Public Schools' Athletic Association. These sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, chess, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. Throughout the years, Lane students have won more than 500 city championships.

Academics

The ACT is the most widely used college admissions test, so its scores are a useful guide for comparing high school academic performance. The test contains four sections: English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science, a composite score is the average of these sections. The score of any of these sections and the composite range from 1 to 36.

Selective Enrollment High School students achieved an average composite score of 234.1 (75th percentile nationally) in 2009. This compares to Lane Tech's 2008 composite of 23.2 (69th percentile nationally) and Chicago's 17.6 (30th percentile nationally), putting Lane Tech significantly above the District (City of Chicago) average and comfortably above the national average.

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Trends in ACT Scores

From 2005 to 2009, Lane Tech's composite ACT score has moved up slightly from 22.0 or 62nd percentile in 2005 to 23.2 or 69th percentile in 2009 as shown below.

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Lane Tech's State of Illinois Ranking

  • State of Illinois rank: 32. In 2009, Lane Tech was ranked 32nd in the state moving down slightly from 27th in 2007 and 30th in 2008, based on a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of average 11th grade reading and math scores on the Prairie State Exams.
  • Percentile: 68.79%. The percentile of students statewide who scored the same or worse than the average student at Lane Tech rose from 65.73% in 2007 to 68.97% in 2008 but fell slightly to 68.79% in 2009.

For additional academic information about Lane Tech, click here for a state report card.