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Evanston Township High School (ETHS) (District 202) is a public high school in Evanston, Illinois. The campus is located in a northern suburb of Chicago along the Lake Michigan shore. ETHS was established in 1883 and serves the city of Evanston and a small portion of the neighboring village of Skokie for a total district population of approximately 78,000. The attendance area of the school is home to Northwestern University. Evanston Township High School has 589 certified staff members. ETHS is fully accredited by the State of Illinois.

The first high school in Evanston, the Preparatory School of Northwestern University, established in 1857, was a private institute. In 1873, public school superintendent Otis E. Haven began teaching Evanston's first public high school class in an upper room of the Benson Avenue School. In 1875, Evanston's first Board of Education voted to establish a "high school" in the room, and the first class, consisting of two students, graduated in 1876. Enrollments grew rapidly and, despite multiple relocations to various buildings, by 1882 the school took four prizes in a statewide competition and was ranked third best in Illinois. Shortly thereafter, voters in April 1882, passed a referendum and bond issue establishing a township school. Construction began promptly in October 1882, and the first building opened in 1883, at Dempster and Elmwood. Enrollment grew rapidly and by 1913, despite multiple additions to the original building, 740 students occupied space meant for only 600. Crowding increased as several attempts to pass bond issues for further addition were defeated at the polls. In 1915, the Board determined to build a new school at a new location, but progress was stalled for years by a bitter fight over the campus location, which included lawsuits that went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court. Finally, in 1921, the Board and voters approved a site at the school's current campus, 1600 Dodge Avenue in central Evanston. Construction began in 1923, and the school opened in 1924. With a campus currently listed as 65 acres (263,000 m²), ETHS provides its students with many technically proficient facilities. With more than 1.2 million square feet indoors, it is the largest high school facility under one roof in the United States. The school's science facilities include a planetarium, greenhouse, and a two acre (8,000 m²), on site nature center/classroom. The South Technology Center (STC), formerly the Bacon Computer Center, houses over 200 computers in seven networked labs. Computer software is available for many courses in the curriculum and the STC is open to students and classes during all school hours. Near the school, across Dodge Ave. on the corner of Davis St., is the Edible Acre urban farming project, initiated by The Talking Farm, which is run with the help of ETHS volunteers during the growing season. Students investigate careers in computer based SMART Labs. An on site day care center serves as a lab for child study classes. Career and Technical Education offers courses that prepare students for future career possibilities. Classes include Child Development, Business Management, Culinary Arts, where students work hands on with food, and learn how to prepare it in a safe and sanitary way, and Auto Tech, where students run an auto repair lab and learn engineering applications in computer aided design, lasers and robotics using state of the art equipment. Music students have their own computer lab with MIDI enabled equipment. The school's library, which is networked to all Illinois libraries, has a 90,000 volume collection and extensive audiovisual resources. Performance facilities include a 1,500 seat auditorium, two additional theaters, and a cable TV broadcasting studio. There are 15 gyms, a dance studio and fitness/wellness center, two swimming pools, and a field house with an indoor track and tennis courts. Outdoor facilities include a new track, as well as a FieldTurf stadium, baseball and soccer fields and 18 tennis courts. In 2023, the school received media attention after it began offering AP math classes which were "restricted to students who identify as Latinx" or Black.

Evanston Township High School is a very large co ed Title I public school with a very diverse student body, both racially and economically. From official data in 2013 14, there were 2,959 students enrolled. Of these students, 1,100 were eligible for free lunch, and 91 for reduced lunch. In recent years, enrollment has increased and become more diverse. The school reported that the 2015 16 school year reflected "the highest enrollment number (3,322) over the last five years at ETHS. ETHS also recorded its highest enrollment of students who identify as Hispanic/Latino in the history of the school. The proportion of Black/African American students (29.5% in 2015 16) has remained steady at ETHS for the past five years while the proportion of Hispanic/Latino students at the main campus has increased from the prior year (about 18% in 2015 2016 compared to 17% in 2014 2015). The proportion of White students decreased to 43.6% in 2015 16 compared to 44.7% in 2014 2015. Additionally, the percentage of Asian students at the main campus has increased slightly in 2015 16 to 5.2% and the percentage of students identified as two or more races declined in 2015 16 to 3.3%, compared to 4.2% in 2014 15." ETHS also provides a transitional program for refugees from around the world.

Some classes, including most required freshman courses, are taught at a mixed level, allowing all students to earn honors credit, while others are differentiated between regular, honors, and advanced levels. The school offers 34 courses for Advanced Placement credit, as well as 9 nationally recognized Project Lead the Way (PLTW) engineering courses. Students who have exhausted all of the available accelerated courses in an academic area at ETHS may take advanced courses for college credit at Northwestern University through a special scholarship program. Some years Northwestern faculty teaches advanced mathematics students at ETHS. ETHS is listed as a gold medal school under U. S. News & World Report's 2016 list of America's 500 Best High Schools, at #452 nationally and #13 in the state. Ninety three percent of the students from the Class of 2015 (723 students) took the ACT. ETHS students continue to score higher than the state and national average.

Students from Evanston captured the IHSA State Championship in Speech in 1951, Policy Debate in 1968, 1971, 1979, 1993, and 1995, Lincoln Douglas Debate in 2004, 2014, and 2015, and Public Forum Debate in 2015. ETHS is the first school to ever hold the Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas titles in the same year. The ETHS Speech and Debate program has risen to national prominence in the last half decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate tournament, the Superb Owl.

John T. Riddell was a football coach at the school and invented the removable cleat, and later invented the plastic suspension football helmet. He later founded Riddell, the sporting goods company.

The 2004 film Mean Girls (2004) is set in Evanston, and its fictitious "North Shore High School" was inspired by Evanston Township High School. Filming took place in Ontario.