Fox Lake, IL·D124
Homes in the
Grant Community HS district.
Lakefront living on the Chain O'Lakes, with a Metra line straight into Chicago and the Grant Bulldogs at the center of the community.
- Homes for sale
- 83
- Typical list
- $363,000
- Most expensive
- $899,900
- Most affordable
- $90,900
35231 Wilson Road →
272 Misty Ridge →
Bulldogs · Red & White · 1,837 students · Northern Lake County Conference
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83 homes on the market
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Market snapshot
The Grant Community HS area, by the numbers
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Homes for sale now
159
Typical list price
$350,000
Avg time on market
14 days
Sold in the last year
543
Typical sale price · last 90 days
$317,990
Living near Grant Community HS
The area, not just the school
Fox Lake sits at the southern tip of the Chain O'Lakes, about 50 to 55 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, and life here really does revolve around the water. The village center wraps around the connected shores of Pistakee Lake, Nippersink Lake, and Fox Lake itself, and summer brings boating, swimming, jet skiing, and tubing across one of the busiest recreational lake systems in Illinois. You will find everything from cottage-style lake homes and year-round waterfront properties to more conventional single-family neighborhoods a little further from shore, so there is a range of housing character depending on how close to the water you want to be.
For commuters, the big draw is the Fox Lake Metra station, the terminus of the Milwaukee District North Line, which runs straight into Chicago Union Station, so you can live on the lake and still reach the Loop by rail. Pace also runs local bus service connecting Fox Lake toward Grayslake and Crystal Lake, and the village is anchored by Grand Avenue (Route 59) and U.S. Route 12. It is a community with deep summer-resort roots that has settled into a stable year-round town, and that mix of lake lifestyle plus a real rail link to the city is what makes the area distinctive.
🐶Home of the Bulldogs
Grant Community High School District 124 has served Fox Lake and its neighbors since 1930.
🚆Metra to Chicago
The Fox Lake station is the terminus of Metra's Milwaukee District North Line into Chicago Union Station.
🛥️Chain O'Lakes
Fox Lake sits at the southern tip of the Chain O'Lakes, a major boating and recreation system.
📍About 50 miles from the Loop
The village is roughly 50 to 55 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.
🗺️30-square-mile district
District 124 spans about 30 square miles across Lake County and into Spring Grove in McHenry County.
🎓Roughly 1,900 students
Grant enrolls about 1,900 students in grades 9 through 12.
The school
About Grant Community High School
Established in 1930, Grant Community High School is a comprehensive high school in Fox Lake at the corner of Grand Avenue and Route 59. Its District 124 covers roughly 30 square miles of Lake County and serves sections of Fox Lake, Ingleside, Lake Villa, Round Lake, Round Lake Heights, Round Lake Beach, Volo, Lakemoor, and the McHenry County village of Spring Grove. The school draws students from four public elementary districts (Big Hollow, Gavin, Fox Lake, and Lake Villa) along with several private schools, and it has grown substantially through additions and renovations completed in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Grant offers an Advanced Placement program along with academic labs, dual-credit and college and career readiness pathways, and Future Ready programming. Curriculum partners include the Lake County Technology Campus for career and technical training, and the school supports a Seal of Biliteracy track.
Grant fields its athletic teams as the Bulldogs in the Northern Lake County Conference, competing in the Illinois High School Association. The program runs a full slate of boys' and girls' sports, with football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling among the longstanding offerings. Grant wrestling produced its most decorated alumnus in Olympian Daniel Dennis, a two-time Illinois state runner-up for the Bulldogs.
- District
- D124
- Founded
- 1930
- Principal
- Blair Schoell
- Conference
- Northern Lake County Conference
- Address
- 285 East Grand Avenue, Fox Lake, IL 60020
Notable alumni
- Ryan Noda. MLB first baseman and a 2014 Grant graduate who has played in the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, and Baltimore Orioles organizations.
- Daniel Dennis. Freestyle wrestler and 2016 U.S. Olympian at 57 kg, an Ingleside native who became a two-time All-American at the University of Iowa.
Facts on this page sourced from Wikipedia and the District D124 website. Last verified 2026-06-25.
Listings filtered by the school the MRED listing agent assigned. Roughly 7 in 10 active listings have this field populated; the remaining listings will surface once the school-district boundary pipeline ships. School assignment is not a guarantee. Always verify with the district before writing an offer.
The questions buyers actually ask
Grant Community HS FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping the Grant Community HS district. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- What district is Grant Community High School in?
- Grant Community High School is part of Grant Community High School District 124, a standalone high school district headquartered in Fox Lake, Illinois.
- What towns feed into Grant Community High School?
- District 124 covers roughly 30 square miles and serves sections of Fox Lake, Ingleside, Lake Villa, Round Lake, Round Lake Heights, Round Lake Beach, Volo, Lakemoor, and Spring Grove in McHenry County. Students come up from the Big Hollow, Gavin, Fox Lake, and Lake Villa elementary districts.
- How is the commute to Chicago from the Grant area?
- Fox Lake is about 50 to 55 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, and the Fox Lake Metra station is the terminus of the Milwaukee District North Line, offering commuter rail service directly to Chicago Union Station.
- What is it like to live near Grant Community High School?
- The area sits on the Chain O'Lakes at the southern tip of the lake system, so waterfront and lake-oriented homes are common alongside more traditional neighborhoods, and boating and water recreation are central to local life.
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