They have two campuses. The "new" one, built in the '70's, houses the freshmen and Sophmores. The old one, which includes the original building from the 1880's plus numerous accretions/add-ons, houses the Juniors and Seniors a few miles away. The various academic measurements done by the state consistently place it in the top 10% of Illinois high schools.
The principal of the last 10 years is retiring. He is highly thought of as having maintained or improved the school during his tenure, and is popular with the student body to boot. Interestingly enough, the man is black, in a school where the proportion of the student body that is black is about 1% or 2% and the Hispanic proportion is about 4%.
Is this high school, Lyons Township?