Brown County Community Unit School District 1
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Brown County Community Unit School District 1 is a unified school district
located in Mount Sterling
, the county seat of Brown County, Illinois
; it was created out of sixty-seven individual school districts and one parochial school.
Today, the district has three schools: Brown County Elementary School, Brown County Middle School, and Brown County High School
. The current superintendent is Merle Kenady, and the mascot of the school is the Hornet
.
on May 16, 1947, although the legislature proceeded to permit the consolidation of all schools in the county into one district one month later. J. Russell Morris was chosen as the first superintendent of the district.
The plan to reorganize the educational districts of Brown County included the construction of new K-8 schools in Mount Sterling, as well as the surrounding villages of Versailles
and Ripley
and the unincorporated areas of Cooperstown, Timewell, and Hersman. Slowly, the one-room school houses that originally housed the students of the county closed down as they were replaced by the newer five schools set up in accordance to what the reorganization effort entailed. They had disappeared entirely by 1953.
Unified school district
A unified school district or unit school district is a school district which includes both primary school and high school under the same district control....
located in Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, Illinois
Mount Sterling is a city in Brown County, Illinois, USA. The population was 2,070 at the 2000 census. It is also the county seat.-Geography:Mount Sterling is located at ....
, the county seat of Brown County, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
; it was created out of sixty-seven individual school districts and one parochial school.
Today, the district has three schools: Brown County Elementary School, Brown County Middle School, and Brown County High School
Brown County High School
Brown County High School, or BCHS, is a public four-year high school located at 500 East Main Street in Mount Sterling, Illinois, a small city in Brown County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. BCHS serves the communities of Mount Sterling, Ripley, Timewell, and Versailles...
. The current superintendent is Merle Kenady, and the mascot of the school is the Hornet
Hornet
Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps; some species can reach up to in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex , which is proportionally larger in Vespa and by the anteriorly rounded gasters .- Life cycle :In...
.
History
Brown County Community Unit School District 1 was created, as previously mentioned, out of sixty-seven school districts and one private parochial school; with the passing of the School Survey Law through the government of the state of Illinois, a committee was formed in Brown County to evaluate and, if necessary, reorganize the schools in the county. After their survey was completed, the committee proposed to consolidate the elementary school districts of Brown County into one. This was subsequently passed via referendumReferendum
A referendum is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the recall of an elected official or simply a specific government policy. It is a form of...
on May 16, 1947, although the legislature proceeded to permit the consolidation of all schools in the county into one district one month later. J. Russell Morris was chosen as the first superintendent of the district.
The plan to reorganize the educational districts of Brown County included the construction of new K-8 schools in Mount Sterling, as well as the surrounding villages of Versailles
Versailles, Illinois
Versailles is a village in Brown County, Illinois, United States. The population was 567 at the 2000 census. The city's name is pronounced differently from the French city of the same name: "ver-".-Geography:...
and Ripley
Ripley, Illinois
Ripley is a village in Brown County, Illinois, along La Moine River. The population was 103 according to the year 2000 census.-Geography:Ripley is located at ....
and the unincorporated areas of Cooperstown, Timewell, and Hersman. Slowly, the one-room school houses that originally housed the students of the county closed down as they were replaced by the newer five schools set up in accordance to what the reorganization effort entailed. They had disappeared entirely by 1953.