Bloom Trail High School | |
Streetaddress: | 22331 Cottage Grove Avenue |
Zipcode: | 60411 |
Country: | USA |
Coordinates: | 41.4842°N -87.5948°W |
Opened: | 1964 |
Status: | Open |
Closed: | No |
Superintendent: | Lenell Navarre[1] |
Principal: | Glynis Keene |
Enrollment: | 1,151 (2020–21) |
Ratio: | 16.49[2] |
Teaching Staff: | 74.30 (FTE) |
Grade9: | 340 students |
Grade10: | 337 students |
Grade11: | 240 students |
Grade12: | 234 students |
Average Class Size: | 23 |
Area: | South Suburbs |
Slogan: | Go Blazing Trojans! |
Mascot: | Trail Blazer |
Team Name: | Bloom Township Blazing Trojans |
Act: | 18 |
Newspaper: | "The Bloom Trail Express" |
Website: | http://www.bloomtrail.org/ |
Bloom Trail High School is a public high school in Steger, Illinois, a south suburb of Chicago, in the United States. It is part of Bloom Township High School District 206. Originally the Bloom Township Freshman-Sophomore Division, in 1976 it became a four-year high school and was renamed Bloom Trail High School. Sports for both Bloom High School and Bloom Trail High School are combined since 1995. Football, volleyball, basketball, track, games/practices are held at Bloom Trail.
The average ACT score at the school is an 18. The class of 2017 set a record for the number of students (33) who passed the PSAE, which allows the students to go to the local community college, Prairie State College, to take college courses.
Bloom Trail High School serves the communities of Steger, Sauk Village, Crete, South Chicago Heights, Ford Heights, a small portion of Chicago Heights, and parts of Lynwood. The following schools feed into Bloom Trail High School:[3] Columbia Central Middle School (Steger), Rickover Jr. High School (Sauk Village), and Cottage Grove Middle School (Ford Heights).