The gleaming domed roof of the planetarium beckons the budding astronomer. Evanston has something for all this mixed clientele. It is a vast, diverse institution serving the children of Chicago bankers from expensive homes along Lake Michigan, of blue-collar "ethnics" from local plants and of blacks whose homes cluster around the school. When, 23 years ago, the late Harvard president James Bryant Conant drafted his landmark educational blueprint known as the Conant Report, he called for bigger and better high schools and even urged that small high schools be "eliminated on a nationwide basis."Įvanston still fits the Conant model. Such large, comprehensive high schools have long been held up as models for the nation to copy.
It is so big that a senior, relaxing in the upper-class lounge, points out two classmates whose names he still does not know.Įnrollment at Evanston, which reached nearly 6,000 students in the early 1970s, is down to "only" 3,500, but crowds of youngsters still throng the long corridors and pour onto the acres of athletic fields in a seemingly endless stream. Evanston Township High School is so big that the administration has put up locator maps with "you-are-here" markers to help people find their way around.
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