Peoria Heights High School

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Peoria Heights High School
The Peoria Heights High School Patriots mascot
Address
Map
508 East Glen Avenue

Peoria Heights
,
Peoria County
,
Illinois
61616

USA
Coordinates40°44′44″N 89°35′9″W / 40.74556°N 89.58583°W / 40.74556; -89.58583
Information
TypeComprehensive Public High School
School districtPeoria 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 conferencePrairieland
Inter County Athletic
Team namePatriots
Feeder schoolsPeoria Heights Grade School
WebsiteOfficial 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]

Academics[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "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. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  4. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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.

External links[edit]

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