Edwardsville High School

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Edwardsville Senior High School is a public high school located in Edwardsville, Illinois. It currently serves over 2,500 students and contains grades 9-12. It is the only high school in the Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7 (simply known as "District 7"), and with six grade K-2 elementary schools, four grades 3-5 schools (two new elementary schools, one K-2 and one 3-5 being built in 2007), and 2 middle schools (with Liberty Middle School being completed in 2005), EHS is a funneling point for all District 7 students from Edwardsville and Glen Carbon north, up to Worden, Moro, Dorsey, Hamel, and Holiday Shores. This encompasses almost an entire portion of the county from I-270 north between I-55 and Illinois State Route 255 (excluding Bethalto, which has its own high school) north to the Madison county line.

Edwardsville High School was first located on North Kansas Street in downtown Edwardsville, and today that building is Columbus Elementary School, with several hundred square feet of space on the third floor which is used primarily as additional District 7 offices. The second Edwardsville High School was completed in 1925. It was expanded over the years creating a labyrinth of halls to form what is today Lincoln Middle School, on 145 West Street. The current Edwardsville High School complex was completed in 1997 by the Korte Company of Highland, Illinois, and is located by the intersection of Illinois Route 157 and Center Grove Road, near the entrance to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Edwardsville High School is known for its extraordinarily high academic and athletic standards, making it one of the premier high schools in the state of Illinois and one of the top in the state outside of the Chicago area. The current principal is Dennis Cramsey. The school mascot is the Tiger, with orange & black being the main school colors. Many different sports teams have made it into state championships during the history of EHS, and the marching band has won first place at numerous competitions over the years. In February of 2013, the EHS boys basketball team won 3rd place at the state semifinals, the first time in the semifinals since 1956. EHS offers honors and AP classes, and a wide variety of classes in the core subjects of English, Math, Science, and Social Sciences; once graduation requirements are complete, these class options allows upper class students to choose better classes to suit their needs for college and beyond. The ACT test composite score is 22. 80% of students go on to a 4-year college and an additional 15% go to a 2-year college. In addition to numerous sports and classes, there are also numerous extra-curricular activities including Drama Club (and a local Thespian troupe), jazz band, war games, EPIC (Edwardsville Peer Influence Club), Tri-M Music Honors Society, and many others.

Athletic facilities include a multi-million dollar sports complex with a football stadium, Megatron screen, concessions stands, restrooms & locker rooms, additional soccer & football fields, baseball and softball fields, and a wrestling complex with a weight room and gymnasium. In 2013, it was announced that $4 million had been donated by notable alumni (former vice president of Coca Cola & an ESPN co-founder) Charles "Chuck" Fruit's wife, Sharon. It will include an Olympic-sized swimming pool. It will be the largest such complex in the Metro East (the nearest similar sized pool is in Carbondale) and additionally have two 1-meter (3 feet) diving boards and 1 3-meter (10 feet) diving board and be called the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center. Also, there is a recycled-rubber track & field, tennis courts, additional soccer fields, and a garden area. Within the school itself there are 3 gymnasiums (including the main Lucco-Jackson Gym), an indoor track, a weight room, a wrestling room, and several locker rooms. The classrooms all have phone systems which connect to the main office and outbound land lines, as well as computer(s) connected to the internet and TVs with cable connections. The high school is 3 stories tall with a building on the south side of Center Grove Road known as EHS South which is mainly for students in in-district detention, or in-school suspension, and is entirely solar powered. There are two main parking lots, as well as a teachers' lot.


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