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Lane Tech College Prep High School (often shortened to Lane Tech, full name Albert Grannis Lane Technical College Preparatory High School), is a public four-year selective enrollment magnet high school located in the Roscoe Village neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. Lane is one of the oldest schools in the city and has an enrollment of over four thousand students, making it the largest high school in the state.[8] Lane is a selective-enrollment-based school in which students must take a test and pass a certain benchmark in order to be offered admission.[8] Lane is one of eleven selective enrollment schools in Chicago. It is a diverse school with many of its students coming from different ethnicities and economic backgrounds.[9] In 2019, Lane Tech was rated the 3rd best public high school in Illinois and 69th in the nation.[10]

The school is named after Albert G. Lane, a former principal and superintendent of Chicago Public Schools from 1891 until 1898. It was founded in 1908 and dedicated on Washington\'s Birthday in 1909, as the Albert Grannis Lane Manual Training High School.[11] This building, designed by Board of Education Architect Dwight H. Perkins, stood at Sedgwick Avenue and Division Street.[12][13] During the early years of the school\'s operation, the school was a manual training school for boys, where students could take advantage of a wide array of technical classes. Freshmen were offered carpentry, cabinet making, and wood turning. Sophomores received training in foundry, forge, welding, coremaking, and molding. Juniors could take classes in the machine shop. Seniors were able to take electric shop which was the most advanced shop course.[5] By the 1970s freshman were assigned to wood and electric shop for a semester each. Sophomores were forced into welding and foundry although few college bound students gained any value. Politically connected parents could influence students into auto shop.

By the 1930s, Lane had a student population of over 7,000 boys. Since the school\'s building was not originally planned for such a huge student population, a new site for the school was chosen, and the building was designed by Board of Education architect John C. Christensen. On its dedication day, September 17, 1934,[5] the student body—over 9,000 boys—and faculty gathered at Wrigley Field and from there walked en masse several miles west to the new campus. (In 1983 and 2008, to celebrate the 75th and 100th anniversaries of the school, a march was held from the school to Wrigley Field.)[14] Lane\'s huge student body necessitated that classes be held in three shifts.[5] That year (1934), the school name was changed to the Albert Grannis Lane Technical High School to reflect the school\'s expanding curriculum, but was known to all simply as \"Lane Tech.\" In 2004, the school name was changed to Lane Technical College Prep High School to reflect a college preparatory mandate.