Metea Valley High School

Metea Valley High School is a high school in Aurora, Illinois that opened in August 2009 in DuPage County. The school is one of four high schools operated by the Indian Prairie School District. Waubonsie Valley High School is also in Aurora, while Neuqua Valley High School and Wheatland Academy are in Naperville. The school follows IPSD's tradition of naming its High Schools after Native American figures with its namesake Metea.

Serving Indian Prairie School District 204, and opened for the 2009–2010 academic year for freshman and sophomore classes (grades nine and ten), Metea Valley cost $124.7 million to build, and can hold 3,000 students. The school met its full enrollment of students for grades 9-12 during the 2011–2012 academic year. The school began its first Prairie State Achievement Exams (used as a standardized testing measure of academic achievement) during the 2010–2011 academic year, and per Illinois High School Association Policy, the school was not fully recognized for interscholastic sports until that same academic year.

The school's namesake, a chief of the Potawatomi tribe, was selected in 2006 while the school was being planned. The school's colors are black and gold (maintaining a tradition of the district's high schools utilizing gold) and the school's mascot is the 'Mustang'. The colors were announced in February 2007, and the mascot selection in March 2007. Both were chosen by middle school students who began attending the school in 2009, as well as the current Neuqua and Waubonsie students in 2007. The School joined the Upstate Eight Conference in the 2010-2011 school year. They left the Upstate Eight Conference for the DuPage Valley Conference in 2015.

In 2024, 29.7% of the student body identified as White, 36.7% of the student body identified as Asian, 13.7% of the student body identified as Black, 14.6% of the student body identified as Hispanic, and 5% of the student body identified as 2 or more races.

Metea Valley High School's first principal was Jim Schmid, former principal of Waubonsie Valley High School. On January 8, 2014, Principal Schmid announced that Dr. Darrell Echols, Principal at Hill Middle School at the time, would succeed him as Metea Valley High School Principal. Echols assumed his position July 1, 2014 following Mr. Schmid's retirement. After 9 years in July 2023, Echols retired as Metea Principal and Daniel DeBruycker took position of Principal for the Metea Valley High School.

During the 2013-2014 school year, Metea Valley was ranked as the 669th best high school in America and the 29th best in Illinois by U.S. News & World Report. Metea Valley was also ranked the 23rd most challenging high school in Illinois. This ranking is based on standardized test scores and percentage of students on subsidized lunch, among other factors.

One of the companies contracted for the school's construction was Commercial Mechanical Inc (CMI) from Dunlap, Illinois. The school was designed by the Chicago office of DLR Group. The construction manager was Turner Construction Company.

Construction began on May 7, 2008. For months, as the landscape changed, there was no discernible structure, although one could see the flattened "footprint" where the building would be located and massive sewer pipes and basins dotting the land. Then, early in August 2008, steel structural beams started to rise up near the southwest corner of the property.