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Amundsen High School
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- 5110 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- (773) 534-2320
- (773) 534-2330
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Roald Amundsen High School, is a public high school located at the corner of Damen and Foster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. It is a part of Chicago Public Schools and has approximately 1,500 students. It is a neighborhood high school without selective enrollment. It is notable for being a CPS school with a non-selective International Baccalaureate program. The school is located at the north-east corner of Winnemac Park in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. It shares the park with Eliza Chappell Elementary School and Amundsen's sports stadium, Jorndt Field. [1]
It was named after Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole. His expedition reached the pole on December 14, 1911. In 1956, the school was the first site of a two-year college program that later grew to become present-day Harry S Truman College. [1]
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