Lincoln-Way East High School or LWE, is a four-year public high school located approximately three miles south of Interstate 80 near the intersection of Colorado Avenue, U.S. Route 45 (La Grange Road) and U.S. Route 30 (Lincoln Highway) in Frankfort, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.
In December 1974, voters approved a $4,985,000 bond issue to develop a new freshman–sophomore building on the Frankfort site.
Facilities added included a 42 classroom academic wing, a field house and auditorium.
Lincoln-Way East sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and water polo.
The following teams have won or finished in the top four of their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament or meet: