Huntley High School

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Huntley High School is a public high school in Huntley, Illinois, USA. The catchment area includes Consolidated School District 158, which includes all of Huntley as well as parts of Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, and other surrounding communities and rural areas.The BuildingThe current building, located at 13719 Harmony Road in Huntley, IL, was constructed in 1997, and at the time was the school district’s first new building in about 30 years. It was originally designed as a middle-high school, with a shared cafeteria and library in the center of the building.The original high school building, located on Mill Street in Huntley, was built in the 1960s and only featured about a dozen classrooms and outdated facilities. In the 1990s, the district’s enrollment increased with suburban growth, and the school facilities needed to be expanded. After the new building was built in 1997, the old building served grades 4-5, before finally being converted into a recreational center when it was sold to the Huntley Park District in the early 2000s.AdditionsIn 1999, the building’s first major addition was a 12 classroom wing on the west end designed for temporary usage for grade 5. In 2000, when the new elementary schools were built, this wing served the high school's mathematics, foreign language, and social studies classes.In 2002, substantial additions were made to both the west and east sides of the building. On the west end, was a second wing which created a new main office for the high school, special education classrooms, high school science labs and classrooms, and 8th grade classrooms. A 4-classroom wing housing health classrooms and a computer lab connected the two western wings and completely surrounded the west gym (middle school gym).