Naperville Central High School (Naperville Central or NCHS) is a public four-year comprehensive school ranked in the top 3% of high schools nationally by U.S. News & World Report, covering grades nine through twelve in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb southwest of Chicago in the United States. The school is a part of the Naperville Community Unit School District 203.
The school is notable for its strong academic standing and history of athletic accomplishments. Several of its alumni are notable across a variety of fields, and the school is unique in that it is the only high school in the United States to have its own Ancient Egyptian mummy.
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