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Beardstown Community Unit School District 15 is a unit school district located in the Cass County, Illinois city of its namesake: Beardstown. The majority of students in the district are white, but the district also has a 35% Hispanic population[1] and has many bilingual students.[2]

There are four schools located within this district. Grand Avenue School serves the district's preschoolers; Gard Elementary School grades kindergarten through fourth; lastly, Beardstown Middle/High School, also known as Beardstown Junior Beardstown Junior/Senior High School,[3] serves grades 6–12. The superintendent is Reggie Clinton.[4] As of 2013, the principals of each of the respective schools are Pam DeSollar of Grand Avenue School,[4] Steve Groll of Gard/Brick Elementary Schools,[4] and Scott Riddle of Beardstown Middle/High School.[4] The mascot for all schools in the district is the tiger.

Brick School, built in 1927 and expanded in 1950 and 1990,[5] closed at the end of the 2013–2014 school year;[6] the school board voted on September 20, 2014 to sell the Brick School property.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Test Scores for Beardstown Cusd 15". GreatSchools. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  2. ^ "News: Raising Bilingual Childran / La Crianza de Niños Bilingües". Brick Elementary School. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Beardstown Junior/Senior High School Home Page". Beardstown Junior/Senior High School. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d "Contact Directory: Administrators". Beardstown Community Unit School District 15. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  5. ^ Mike Ryan Auctioneer Service (October 9, 2014). "Brick School Auction" (PDF). Cass County Star-Gazette (advertisement). Vol. 170, no. 20. Beardstown, Illinois: Beardstown Newspapers. p. 11. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  6. ^ "Minutes, Board of Education Community Unit School District No. 15, Regular Meeting February 27, 2014". Beardstown, Illinois: Beardstown Community Unit School District No. 15. 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  7. ^ "Minutes, Board of Education Community Unit School District No. 15, Regular Meeting August 24, 2014". Beardstown, Illinois: Beardstown Community Unit School District No. 15. 2014-08-24. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
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