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Farmington Central High School, or FCHS, is a public four-year high school located at 310 North Lightfoot Road across the Peoria County line from Farmington, Illinois, a town of Fulton County, Illinois. FCHS is part of Farmington Central Community Unit School District 265, which also includes Farmington Central Junior High School, and Farmington Central Elementary School. The campus is just east of Farmington, 20 miles (32 km) west of Peoria, Illinois, and serves a mixed town and rural residential community.
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- ↑ "2009 Report Card Definitions and Sources of Data" (PDF). Illinois State Board of Education, Division of Data Analysis and Progress Reporting. 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
