Peoria Heights High School

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Peoria Heights High School
Address
Peoria Heights High School
508 East Glen Avenue

Peoria Heights
,
Peoria County
,
Illinois
61616

USA
Coordinates 40°44′44″N89°35′9″W / 40.74556°N 89.58583°W / 40.74556; -89.58583
Information
Type Comprehensive Public High School
School district Peoria Heights Community Unit School District 325
PrincipalTerry Mooney
Faculty18.60 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment206 (2017-18) [1]
Student to teacher ratio11.08 [1]
Campus typeUrban
Color(s)    Red, White, Blue
Athletics conference Prairieland
Inter County Athletic
Team namePatriots
Feeder schoolsPeoria Heights Grade School
Website Official website

Peoria Heights High School, or PHHS, is a public four-year high school located at 508 East Glen Avenue in Peoria Heights, Illinois, a village in Peoria County, in the Midwestern United States. PHHS is part of Peoria Heights Community Unit School District 325, which serves the community of Peoria Heights and a small section of Peoria, [2] and also includes Peoria Heights Grade School. [3] [4] The campus is adjacent to the city of Peoria, and serves a mixed city and village residential community. The school district lies within the Peoria metropolitan statistical area. [5]

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Academics

In 2009 Peoria Heights High School did not make Adequate Yearly Progress, with 42% of students meeting standards, on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, a state test that is part of the No Child Left Behind Act. The school's average high school graduation rate between 1999-2009 was 72%. [6]

Athletics and activities

Peoria Heights High School competes in the Prairieland Conference and Inter County Athletic Conference as a member school of the Illinois High School Association. The PHHS mascot is the Patriots with colors of red, white, and blue. [4] The school's boys baseball team won the 2017 1A state championship. [7]

The school competes in the following sports: [8]

Other school activities include: [8]

History

Peoria Heights High School was opened in 1971. [9] [10] Before that, high school students in the Peoria Heights area attended Richwoods High School in Peoria, until the late 1960s, when they attended Woodruff High School in Peoria. [9] [11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Peoria Heights High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "School District Demographic System". US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics. 2000. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  3. ↑ "Peoria Heights C.U.S.D. #325". Peoria Heights C.U.S.D. #325. Archived from the original on 12 March 2003. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  4. 1 2 "IHSA Peoria Heights High School". IHSA. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  5. ↑ "Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2009" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  6. ↑ "Interactive Illinois Report Card". Illinois State Board of Education. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "IHSA Peoria Heights High School Season Summary". IHSA. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  8. 1 2 "Peoria Heights High School 2009-2010 School Year Academics and Athletics". Peoria Heights High School. Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  9. 1 2 Kravetz, Andy (12 April 2022). "Former Peoria Heights educator fought to keep district from being 'swallowed up by Peoria'". Peoria Journal Star. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "Familiar duds". Berwyn Life. 20 August 1971. p. 16.
  11. ↑ "Two Hgts. Boys at WHS Four Boys at Hgts. High". Peoria Heights Herald. 24 September 1971. p. 8.
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