Edwardsville High School

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Edwardsville High School
Address
Edwardsville High School
6161 Center Grove Road

Edwardsville
,
Illinois
62025

United States
Coordinates 38°47′21″N89°58′32″W / 38.78913°N 89.975567°W / 38.78913; -89.975567
Information
School typePublic Secondary
Opened1997 (current building)
School district District 7
SuperintendentPatrick Shelton
PrincipalSteve Stuart [1]
Teaching staff122.00 (FTE) [2]
Grades9–12
Gendercoed
Enrollment2,353 (2020-21) [2]
Student to teacher ratio18.27 [2]
Campussuburban
Color(s)  orange
  black
Fight song "Go Tigers"
Athletics conference Southwestern Conference
MascotTiger
Newspaper Tiger Times (online), The Claw (print)
YearbookThe Tiger
Website ecusd7.org/ehs

Edwardsville Senior High School is a public high school located in Edwardsville, Illinois.

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History

Edwardsville High School was first located on North Kansas Street in downtown Edwardsville. Due to the expansion of the town, a new high school was commissioned in 1921. Today, the first building is Columbus Elementary School. The second Edwardsville High School was completed in 1925, on 145 West Street. Rather than rebuild a bigger school, it was expanded over the years to meet the demands of the growing school district.

In 1993, Edwardsville High school was unable to be expanded any longer, and a motion was passed to turn the old High School into a middle school, and build a new state of the art High School at 6161 Center Grove Road. [3] The current Edwardsville High School complex was completed in 1996 by the Korte Company and began regular use in 1997 [4]

Features

Edwardsville High School's Chuck Fruit aquatic center is home to the only Olympic size swimming pool in the Metro East [5]

Incidents

The school has been the target of several bomb and shooting threats, most notably in 2004, [6] 2010, [7] 2014, [8] and 2018. [9]

In November 2019, several fights broke out due to racial posts on Snapchat. [10]

Notable alumni

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  2. 1 2 3 "Edwardsville High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  3. ↑ "About". Edwardsville Community District 7 Schools. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
  4. ↑ "Edwardsville High School | The Korte Company". 13 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center". Great Rivers & Routes. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  6. ↑ Wilkinson, Krista (2004-05-20). "EHS student faces charges". The Edwardsville Intelligencer. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
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  10. ↑ Edwardsville High School officials speak out after fights erupt due to racist posts , retrieved 2021-10-08
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