Stephen T Mather High School

I used to attend this school a few years back. When I attended the lockers here were half the size of a normal locker and you can barely fit anything into it. There was a lot of gang bangers or as you would rather consider wannabe gang bangers. If I can recall, a lot would represent themselves as being kings. For some reason a lot of Assyrians and Caucasians attend this school. Don’t get me wrong, the school is still diverse. But for the most part those were the ethnics I saw mostly. In addition they could have done a better job with the teachers that they hired. Some of them I believe are really nosy and talk about their students inappropriately.

I am a tutor who works at many CPS high schools and I can safely say that Mather is not the best, but is also not the worst. Like any public high school, you will find some teachers who are better and some who are worse… some who care more and some who care less.
If I were a parent in the area looking for a high school for my child, I would first look at Senn, then look at Mather. Not bad, but not my first choice.

I attended the «Stephen T. Mather High School» football game in the afternoon on 10/​21/​2011. The game was played a Winnemac Stadium. It was my first time there. The Mather Rangers defeated the Steinmetz Silver Streaks by a score of 14 to 13. Despite the fact that Steinmetz was able to rush 27 times for 189 yards on the ground. They needed an announcer for the game so I announced it (in Chicago!).

I am entering into my Senior year at Mather (I enrolled my Junior Year) and it is your typical city high school. Kids for the most part are not concerned about learning, and most teachers don’t care if you do. There are, however, some excellent teachers and students that are the exception. There aren’t many fights and there isn’t big tension in the halls. It certainly isn’t the worst high school, but it could greatly improve.

After my child have been attending Mather for sometime now I can honestly say that it’s not the best school. I really wanted to get my child into NorthTown College prep and will continue to do so. Mather is overcrowded and some of the students throw racist words around like it’s OK. Hell, there’s a certain staff member in high position there who doesn’t seems to be bother by this when I expressed my concerns so I guess the students shouldn’t be either.

I went to mather from 73 – 76. I know the neighborhood and school in not even close to what it was like back then. I hope the school can still function well and turn students into productive people and for college. This was a great school for me in many ways. I just diden’t do well with doing homework, getting good grades that sort of thing. Back then Mather was written up in the local Lerner Paper as the number 1 high school in Chicago for drugs. That was probably at that time mather was mostly jewish and people had a lot of money and my friends and i were doing drugs at that time and going to class stoned on pot or pills such as ROA qualudes, angle dust, speed it was like a candy store and anything you wanted was there. On the other hand the teachers were cool some were a total trip though. We had this one teacher Mr Hamburger. He was a funny and kind over weight man who believe it or not, wore the same cloths to school to teach every day. I think he owned 2 shirts and 2 pair of pants. The sports programs were good and unlike today where sports programs are being cut from schools i hope that wont stay the case. I myself was on freshman year baseball and basketball team but was cut from both teams due to my bad attedence and low grades. All i know is i might not have learned as much as i would have wanted if i was able to go back in a time machine to do better, but i did have a heck of a time.

Not the best high school when I went there (GY 1999). Teacher were bad (for the most part), and it was overcrowded. I you can, try to get into Northside College Prep. I hear it is THE BEST Chicago public high school in the area. Anyways, bottom line. Mather will NOT prepare you for college.