Located 30 miles north of Chicago, Lake Forest High School serves the residents of Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Knollwood. A community of 22,000, primarily business and professional residents, evidences a strong demand for excellence. These communities are exceptionally supportive of its many diverse institutions. For Lake Forest High School, this assistance takes the form of college scholarships, foreign exchange programs, purchase of special equipment, underwriting leadership training and summer workshops for students. Originally built in 1935, the facilities have had substantial and continual renovation. The school now boasts state of the art science labs, a studio theater, an auditorium theater, a complete array of special education facilities, computer labs, a student publication center, photography lab, a television studio with a collection of 5,500 curriculum-related videotapes, a computerized library with CD-ROM information retrieval, a new field house, a climbing wall and Olympic size swimming pool with diving well. The average tenure of faculty members at Lake Forest High School is 9.9 years and more than 77 percent of the faculty hold master's degree or beyond . Members of the faculty have been instrumental in the development of Advanced Placement courses, serve on a number of state curriculum committees, and have authored both articles in professional journals and textbooks.

Motto

Abeunt Studia in Mores, inscribed in stone over the main entrance, is the Lake Forest High School motto. Literally translated from the Latin it would read: Abeunt (“they leave” or “they go away from”), Studia (“eagerness, fondness, desire, striving after, devotion to, or “zeal”), in (“in” or “into”) and Mores (“morality, philosophy,” or “ethics”). Hence, it could be translated to read:

“They leave, striving after morality.”