District 214 students are accelerating their future careers with summer internships. From working at an auto body shop, to sports marketing and environmental science, students are...

Rishi Ganti needed his next math challenge and wasn’t sure where to turn. He’d taken his first high school-level math course as an eighth grader at Holmes Junior High. By his juni...

Twenty years after helping launch District 214’s International Newcomer Academy, Mario Perez is still seizing every opportunity to refine the Academy’s mission to welcome global...

From high school state champion to Olympian, Erin Reese is ready to show her strength to the world in the hammer throw. The Prospect High School 2014 graduate came in third pla...

With the excitement of Paris on the horizon, District 214 is beaming with pride as we celebrate the outstanding achievement of six athletes who competed fiercely in the U.S. Olymp...

From our halls to the pros, Cameron Christie is officially in the NBA. The Rolling Meadows High School 2023 graduate was the 46th pick in the second round of the draft by the L....

As a teen, he created his own work-based learning by repairing neighbors’ TV sets. The younger brother of mechanics, he knew how to build things. Like the rafts on which he’d flo...

Space travel is hardly new, but videos of astronauts floating through the International Space Station never get old. Watch carefully the next time you see such a video, because W...

In a world with ever-increasing speed, immediacy and instant gratification, the value of the process, working towards a goal over a long period of time, can get lost. For students...

Combine the time-tested science fair with a contemporary focus on societal benefit and what do you get? Wheeling High School’s innovative and popular Positive Impact Symposium. B...

Six graduating seniors were named the 2024 recipients of High School District 214’s annual Calisch Awards. This year’s honorees represent passion, talent and leadership in band, ...

Alex Strugacz is heading to Cornell University this fall; Miguel Aenlle to the University of Illinois. After that … who knows, other than onward and upward? There’s no hyperbole ...

District 214 is all about helping students discover their future. Emily Sohn epitomizes the realization of this mission. The John Hersey High School senior found her calling throu...

For 35 years, Elk Grove High School has been providing students with a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.” The Japanese Exchange Program has been a cornerstone of EGHS’s language ...

Why conduct strategic planning? For many good reasons, among them the fact that a thoughtfully constructed strategic plan, created with input from key stakeholders, can set the st...

Wheeling High School robotics students are pushing the boundaries of robotics education. Wheeling was the only high school with a display at Automate, the world's largest robot...

Sometimes, all it takes is one person’s passion and vision to launch an idea that takes root, steadily grows and bears fruit for decades to come. So it was nearly 50 years ago w...

Shelby Rosin, science teacher at Prospect High School, is the winner of the 2024 Dr. Elizabeth A. Ennis Innovator Award from High School District 214. The legacy of the late Dr. ...

When Julia Korzen first tried bowling at a birthday party several years ago, she didn’t know that the game would be right up her alley. Turns out that it is, so much so that the ...

Forty years. That’s how long it had been since any District 214 girls gymnastics team had won the IHSA state title. Until this year, when John Hersey High School’s team turned in ...