Neuqua Valley High School

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Neuqua Valley High School is a public four-year high school located near the corner of Illinois Route 59 and 95th Street in Naperville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Neuqua Valley is the counterpart to Waubonsie Valley High School and Metea Valley High School, in Indian Prairie School District 204.HistoryThe campus consists of two locations. The Birkett Freshman Center building houses freshmen. The Main Campus, the original building, houses sophomores, juniors, and seniors.The original Neuqua Valley campus building was opened in August 1997, and was built to house 3000 students.The middle school conversion was done for the 2003–2004 academic year in an effort to alleviate overcrowding. The "Frontier Campus" allowed seniors to receive dual credit for classes from the College of DuPage. These students attended class in block sessions with no classes on Friday. It allowed for independence and freedom. Seniors from Waubonsie Valley High School also participated in the program. The Frontier Campus option was closed in 2012.The lake behind the school is known as "Lake Birkett", in honor of the school's first principal, Kathryn Birkett, also the namesake of the Fresman Campus building, in honor of her service as district superintendent until 2014.Neuqua Valley was designed by the architecture firm ATS&R.