Dundee-Crown High School

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Dundee-Crown High School is a high school located in Carpentersville, Illinois, United States, a suburb of Chicago.Dundee-Crown High School was made from consolidating Dundee Community High School and Irving Crown High school in 1983. It is a AAA school for IHSA sports. Dundee-Crown serves 2,529 students and is one of three high schools in Community School District 300.The school serves people from Carpentersville, the east half of Algonquin, East Dundee, West Dundee, Sleepy Hollow, southwest Cary, southwest Fox River Grove and western Barrington Hills.HistoryDundee Community High School was opened in the late 1864 to serve members of the Dundee community settlement in Northwest Illinois. The school was located at the corner of 6th Street and Kane Street on a hill overlooking the Fox River. The building is now called the Union School Apartments. In the 1920s a separate high school building was built on Western Ave. (Illinois Route 31) and Hillside Street, on the northern edge of West Dundee. This school would hold the only State Champion team in the combined school history in 1938 with its boys basketball team under Coach Eugene de Lacey. In 1953, the school district obtained federal funds to build a new building at 300 Cleveland Avenue in Carpentersville, and the old building became Dundee Junior High School/Dundee Middle School. However, Spain Field located immediately to the north of the old school was retained for varsity sports. The school would remain at that location from 1953 until 1983. The school served all of District 300 except for Hampshire.