Bremen Community High School District 228
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| Bremen Community High School District 228 | |
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| Type | public secondary district |
| Established | 1953 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Brad Sikora |
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| Website | www |
Bremen High School District 228 is a
high school district covering about 29 square miles (75 km2) in Bremen Township. It serves the communities of Midlothian, Posen, Tinley Park, Markham, Hazel Crest, Country Club Hills, and Oak Forest in southern Cook County, Illinois in the south suburbs of Chicago. The district serves over 5,000 students and employs roughly 800 full and part-time staff members. The four high schools this district operates are Bremen, Tinley Park, Hillcrest, and Oak Forest. The community college that serves District 228 is South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois
with a satellite campus in Oak Forest.
History
Bremen High School District 228 was founded in 1953 to serve the area which had previously been assigned to
Bremen High School in Midlothian, Illinois
, 1953.
Further population increases in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in the opening of three additional schools:
- Tinley Park High School in Tinley Park, Illinois, 1961
- portmanteauof two communities which it represents: Country Club Hills and Hazel Crest)
- Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois, 1970