Freeport High School (Illinois)
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Freeport High School is a public secondary school located in Freeport, Illinois
Freeport, Illinois
Freeport is a city in and the county seat of Stephenson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 26,443 at the 2000 census. The mayor of Freeport is George W...

. Their sport teams are named the Pretzels.

Academics

In 2009, Freeport had an average composite ACT
ACT (examination)
The ACT is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, Inc. It was first administered in November 1959 by Everett Franklin Lindquist as a competitor to the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT Reasoning Test...

 score of 19.7, and graduated 85.8% of its senior class. Freeport has not made Adequate Yearly Progress
Adequate Yearly Progress
Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically according to results on standardized...

 (AYP) on the Prairie State Achievement Examination
Prairie State Achievement Examination
The Prairie State Achievement Examination is a two-day standardized test taken by all High School Juniors in the U.S. state of Illinois. On the first day, students take the ACT, and on the second day, a WorkKeys examination and Illinois State Board of Education-developed science examination....

, a state test used in Illinois to fulfill the mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act
No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a United States Act of Congress concerning the education of children in public schools.NCLB was originally proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office...

. All three of the school's student subgroups failed to meet expectations in reading, and two of the three subgroups failed to meet expectations in mathematics. Overall the school failed to meet expectations in both reading and mathematics.

Athletics

The following teams finished in the top four of their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournaments:
  • Basketball (boys): 3rd place (1928–29, 41–42); 2nd place (1913–14); State Champions (1914–15, 25–26, 50–51)
  • Basketball (girls): 3rd place (1993–94, 94–95); 2nd place (2007–08, 08–09)
  • Bowling (boys): 3rd place (2003–04); 2nd place (2002–03); State Champions (2007–08)
  • Bowling (girls): 2nd place (1998–99)
  • Golf (boys): 4th place (1990–91), 3rd place (1961–62, 99–2000)
  • Soccer (boys): 4th place (2009–10)
  • Swimming & Diving (girls): 4th place (1998–99)
  • Wrestling: 3rd place (1982–83)

Notable alumni

  • McKinley "Deacon" Davis, was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters
  • Jason Pearson
    Jason Pearson (baseball)
    Jason John Pearson is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.Pearson attended Freeport High School and Illinois State University....

    , baseball player
  • Preston Pearson
    Preston Pearson
    Preston James Pearson is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League who played for the Baltimore Colts , the Pittsburgh Steelers , and the Dallas Cowboys . Before his NFL career, he played for the University of Illinois, where he excelled at basketball...

    , Played 14 years in the National Football League
  • Robert L. Johnson
    Robert L. Johnson
    Robert L. Johnson is an American business magnate best known for being the founder of television network Black Entertainment Television , and is also its former chairman and chief executive officer...

    , Former CEO, Chairman, Founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET)
  • Dan Balz
    Dan Balz
    Daniel J. Balz is a journalist at The Washington Post, where he has been a political correspondent since 1978. Balz has served as National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and as the Washington Post’s Texas-based Southwest correspondent. Balz sometimes appears on the news show...

    , Washington Post journalist

Notable staff

  • Adolph Rupp
    Adolph Rupp
    Adolph Frederick Rupp was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is fourth in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching...

     was the boys basketball coach (1926–30). He left to coach at the University of Kentucky
    Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
    The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, representing the University of Kentucky, is the winningest in the history of college basketball, both in all-time wins and all-time winning percentage. Kentucky's all-time record currently stands at 2058–647...

     (1930–72), leading the Wildcats to four NCAA Men's National Championships
    NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
    The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

    .

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