The National Merit® Scholarship Program named four District 155 seniors as 2023 National Merit® Semifinalists. The semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and are the highest-scoring students in each state.

District 155 schools have all ranked in the top eight percent nationally and the top 12 percent in the state according to U.S. News and World Report's Best Public High Schools 2022 list.

Mr. Bacak's industrial tech class has been building a portion of a house for Habitat for Humanity. After carefully constructing to specs, this segment will be delivered to the Habitat site in Crystal Lake and assembled with the rest of the house.

Junior Grace Moore was selected as an Honorary Youth Board Member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) for McHenry County, the only D155 student to to currently claim this honor.

According to Moore, she will be focusing on political advocacy and legislation support, "I really want to go into political science, I see this as a way to help my community and support under-served areas and help change the world a little bit."