Adlai E. Stevenson High School opened on Sept. 7, 1965. The school is named for Adlai E. Stevenson II, a former Illinois governor, two-time presidential candidate, and United States ambassador to the United Nations.

Stevenson serves all or parts of 15 communities with its 42-square-mile district: Lincolnshire, Long Grove and Prairie View, and portions of Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Hawthorn Woods, Indian Creek, Kildeer, Lake Forest, Lake Zurich, Mettawa, Mundelein, Palatine, Riverwoods, Vernon Hills and Wheeling.