Eastland High School (Illinois)

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Eastland High School
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Address
Eastland High School (Illinois)
500 School Drive

Lanark
,
Illinois
61046

United States
Coordinates 42°05′48″N89°49′47″W / 42.0967°N 89.8298°W / 42.0967; -89.8298
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TypePublic High School
School district Eastland Community Unit School District 308
SuperintendentAlex Kashner
PrincipalMonica Burkholder
Faculty22.77 (FTE) [1]
Grades6-12
Enrollment321 (2018–19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio14.10 [1]
Campus typeSmall city
Color(s)  Royal blue
  Orange
Athletics conference Northwest Upstate Illini
MascotCougars
Website Eastland High School

Eastland High School, also known as Eastland, or EHS, is a public four-year high school located at 500 School Drive in Lanark, Illinois, a small city in Carroll County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. EHS serves the communities and surrounding areas of Lanark, Lake Carroll, Georgetown, and Shannon. [2] [3] The campus is located 25 miles north of Sterling, Illinois, and serves a mixed small city, village, and rural residential community.

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Academics

Based on the Illinois School Report Card for the 2018-19 school year, Eastland had a graduation rate of 90% and an Advanced Placement participation rate of 45%. [4] Additionally, in 2019, Eastland ranked as the 4,300 best school in the United States, and 145 in Illinois based on U.S. News & World Report . [5]

Athletics

Eastland High School competes in the Northwest Upstate Illini Conference and is a member school in the Illinois High School Association. Their mascot is the Cougar, with school colors of royal blue and orange. The school has 5 state championships on record in team athletics and activities: back-to-back titles in Girls Volleyball in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 (1A); Football in 2014-15 (2A); another for volleyball in 2015-2016 (1a) and its most recent for girls basketball in 2020-2021 (1a) [2] [6]

Due to EHS' small enrollment they coop for several sports: Pearl City High School for Boys Football and Speech Individual Events; Milledgeville High School for Boys and Girls Golf, and Boys and Girls Track and Field. [7]

History

Eastland High School formed after the consolidation of Lanark High School and Shannon High School in 1987. Surrounding communities that may have had high schools previous to Lanark and Shannon were consolidated into those high schools after the State of Illinois mandated that larger school districts be created in 1949. [8] The current school was originally built as Lanark High School and was completed in the winter of 1951 with an addition of four rooms for junior high students being added on prior to the fall of 1957. The mascot for Lanark High School was the Beavers and the school colors were Royal Blue and White. [9] Besides grades 9-12, the current building also houses grades 7 and 8.

As for the former Shannon High School, it also was built in 1951, the mascot was the Eagles and school colors were Orange and Black. [10] The building in Shannon currently houses the district elementary school as well as sixth grade students. After a considerable amount of time was spent trying to create the perfect link between the two schools it was decided that maintaining a color from each school would help keep some history alive for both communities, Orange from Shannon and Royal Blue from Lanark.

The following timeline details the improvements that the district has completed:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eastland Jr/Sr High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 "IHSA Eastland High School". IHSA. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  3. ↑ "Eastland High School". Eastland CUSD. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  4. ↑ Illinois School Report Card
  5. ↑ U.S. News & World Report
  6. ↑ "IHSA Eastland High School Season Summaries". IHSA. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  7. ↑ "IHSA Coop Teams". IHSA. 15 February 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  8. ↑ Illinois School Code(105 ILCS 5/10-21.2)
  9. ↑ IllinoisHSGloryDays.com
  10. ↑ IllinoisGloryDays.com
  11. ↑ Choose Eastland
  12. ↑ Shales McNutt Construction
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