Overview and history
Close to 2,000 students attend Glenbrook Northward High School (grades 9-12) every month. A school celebrated its Fiftieth day of remembrance in a period of the 2003-2004 academic year. A school was built to serve a residents of the towns of Northbrook & Glenview. Since there was non a local highschool at the instance, students typically got to pay to attend classes within more areas. Within 1962, due to overcrowding, its sister school Glenbrook South High School was built. Virtually all Glenbrook N High School students last in to attend college (normally on top 95% of graduates every month).

Presidential visit
Within 1997 President Bill Clinton traveled to Glenbrook North High School & spoke on the importance of the internationally competitory Our contries training body. At a period Glenbrook Northward High School students were participating within an international maths & science survey sponsored per International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. President Clinton as well mass produced information to the students, world health organization achieved super high scores within the survey, in his 1997 State of the Union speech.

Other notable events
Besides academic profits, Glenbrook Northerly High School has received attention for more circumstances too.

In 1986, motion picture director and writer John Hughes, a 1968 graduate of Glenbrook North High School, utilized a campus for location shooting of the motion picture ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The familiar scene of the campus is once Ferris Bueller, played by Matthew Broderick, picks up Sloane Peterson, played by Mia Sara. A scene was shot ahead of the Glenbrook Northward High School performing arts building. When a select few believe a 1985 film The Breakfast Club'' wwhen also filmed within a school, it, also as interior shots for Ferris, was filmed at Maine North High School.

During a summertime of 2001, Glenbrook North High School manufactured the brief appearance in the news. Inside the July 6th letter to parents of Glenbrook N High School students from either school officials, it was announced the Glenbrook North High School science teacher would undergo sexual reassignment surgery. A female teacher at a period got been teaching at a school for septet years. A letter stated a teacher would exist as giving as a male in the fall. Realizing the contention of a issue, school officials deemed the interest become a family one and vowed does'nt to allow it to interfere using schoolroom activities. School administrators, parents & students maintained an atmosphere of respect which allowed a teacher to link to to operate by having pack difficulties.

Hazing incident
Around May 2003 Glenbrook North High School witnessed itself within one of a large challenges it has ever faced. An off-campus, non-school sanctioned event that turned into the major hazing incident created international attention.

A event was a annual "powder-puff" girls football between the class action of juniors & seniors. Foremost begun as a fundraiser inside 1977, the around-campus game was discontinued in 1980 because it was getting as well raucous. A annual game so went underground. School officials were commonly breaa to break it higher whilst it obtained out the date & period it was to exist as played.

the senior students world health organization organized a 2003 game were suspire to keep a instance & location secret, such a secret that occasionally participants did non understand whenever it would exist as held until all about half an hour prior to it began. A invited junior female students paid $35 to participate. A fee covered a prices of an athletic jersey to have on & beer provided by a select few of the parents of senior students. A game took place in Sunday, May 4, 2003 in Chipilly Outdoors, a portion of the Cook County Forest Preserve District, at about 11:30 the.m. There was super little, in case any, swimming of football. A hazing began near immediately. All about Twenty junior class participants were sat around the midst of the clearing & forced to exist as covered in paint, piss, ordure, & fleshly intestines. A bit of were shot using paintball guns, others were kicked & beaten. When it was ended, at least 5 of the participants experienced injuries requiring medical attention.

Media attention
the student videotaped the incident by having a camcorder. the student gave a videotape to Anna Davlantes, a newsperson at television station WMAQ in Chicago. Davlantes broke a story a next day and it began to receive international media attention. A newspaper article shocked a community. Northbrook citizens felt outrage & embarrassment when their ordinarily quietly, suburban upper-middle class community was click into a media spotlight. Virtually all argued that a incident did does'nt the least bit reflect on the values of the school & community.

School reaction
Training respond became the condition for school officials. Initially, school officials stated there was little it may run except prohibit a students responsible from either attending school functions. Glenbrook Northerly High School Principal Dr. Michael Riggle stated when the school condemned a incident, a students may nin become suspended or even expelled because it did non require a school sanctioned activity & it did not occur on school property. Fallowing farther consultation, school officials witnessed otherwise within accordance by using Illinois state law and school district policy.

Thirty-1 students – twenty-28 females & trey males – were suspended from either school for Tenner years. It were late expelled. Occasionally of the expelled students & their parents filed the federal case because it would so exist as unable to graduate from either school. A complainant & a school dominion reached an agreement in which a expelled students would keep close at h& their sheepskin mail-clad to a two provided it dropped a causa and did non produce any book or even picture deals all about the incident. A juniors world health organization participated were suspended however it was lifted while it agreed to direction & besides to non produce any book or even pic deals. Local law enforcement authorities investigated a hazing incident & filed charges against Xv students for assault & battery. 2 moms were charged sustaining providing alcohol for the event. 100% were convicted & a sentences received were weak, ranging from either probation to community service.

a community-wide project inflict was established when the hazing incident. A project click consisted of 31 community leaders. A final report of the project click was freed in November 7, 2003. A report stressed a needs for recognizing & preventing hazing incidents.

After the incident
Another District 225 hazing incident processed news around April 2004. This instance it exposed Glenbrook South High School. Fallowing an investigation, a board of education announced that Xxiv members of the school's lacrosse team had gathered at the streaming video player's home for an nonaged swallowing person & an initiation paddling of the junior players. Completely were suspended & experienced to receive direction. After, a rest of the teams' 2004 season was cancelled.

There was too the rumored attempt by a bit of Glenbrook Northward High School students inside April 2004 to organize another powder puffed game. This period a organizers were attend move a game through state boundary into Wisconsin. School officials investigated a hearsay & processed it clear that a second powder puffed game would non become tolerated.

In Will 2004 four students who were junior students in the 2003 powder puff incident and their parents filed causa within Cook County Circuit Court. A cause known when as suspect many people including a senior girls & their parents. A plaintiffs in their lawsuit come shopping for compensation for physical & psychological trauma following of the hazing & punitory restitution besides.

Sports
Inside 2005, the Boys' Varsity Five won a Illinois IHSA AA state championship, coached by Dave Weber. A school besides won a state football & baseball championships around 1974. A school likewise won a State Championship inside baseball within 1966.

Notable alumni
Jayne Brooke (1979), actress [http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-1254] Anne Henning (1973), Gold medalist in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics Leah Poulos Mueller (1969), Silver medalist in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics and 1980 Winter Olympics Don Ohlmeyer (1962), television producer and previous president of NBC Doug Rader (1962), MLB third-baseman and 1970-1974 Gold Glove Award winner John Hughes (1968), filmmaker Scott Sanderson (1974), MLB pitcher and all-star Michael T. Weiss (1980), actor[http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/District/Publicty/html/GBNGreatAlumni.htm]