East Saint Louis Sr. High School is the only high school located in East Saint Louis

East St. Louis, Illinois

East St. Louis is a city located in St. Clair County, Illinois, USA, directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri in the Metro-East region of Southern Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 27,006, less than one-third of its peak of 82,366 in 1950...

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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,...

. The school serves about 2,140 students in grades 9 to 12 in the East Saint Louis Public Schools district. It was featured in the Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...

 book Savage Inequalities

Savage inequalities

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools is a book written by Jonathan Kozol in 1991 that discusses the disparities in education between schools of different classes and races. It is based on his observations of various classrooms in the public school systems of East St. Louis, Chicago,...

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Sports

East St. Louis Senior High School recently won the 2008 Class 7A football state championship against Geneva High School

Geneva High School (Illinois)

Geneva Community High School, or GHS, is a public high school located in Geneva, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Geneva Community Unit School District 304.-History:...

. The Flyers have a storied history in Illinois high school football, having won the state championship over a half-dozen times and the national championship twice. From 1976 to the beginning of the 1995 season, the Flyers' coach was Bob Shannon

Bob Shannon

Robert Lavern Shannon is a former high school football coach best known for coaching the East St. Louis Flyers to six Illinois and two national championship victories. Shannon left East St. Louis in the mid-90s after he became fed up with fiscal mismanagement in the school district...

. Two years of Flyers football during that period were the subject of a book, The Right Kind of Heroes.

The Flyers compete in the Southwestern Conference

Southwestern Conference (Illinois)

The Southwestern Conference is a high school conference in southern Illinois. The conference participates in athletics and activities in the Illinois High School Association. The conference comprises large public high schools in the Metro East region of suburban St. Louis.-Current...

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Notable alumni

• Darius Miles
  Darius Miles
  Darius LaVar Miles is an American professional basketball player.The , small forward was selected directly out of high school by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 3rd overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft...
  
  , NBA basketball player
• Dawn Harper
  Dawn Harper
  Dawn Harper from East St. Louis, Illinois is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100-meter hurdles. She was the gold medalist in the event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games...
  
  , Olympic runner
• Jean Madeira
  Jean Madeira
  Jean Madeira was an American mezzo-soprano, particularly known for her work in late-romantic German repertoire such as the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss...
  
  , opera mezzo-soprano
• Dan Thomas
  Dan Thomas
  Danny Lee Thomas was a Major League Baseball player who played for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976 and 1977. During his brief major league career, he became known as the "Sundown Kid" because of his well-publicized refusal to play on seventh-day Sabbath.-Early years:Born in Birmingham, Alabama,...
  
  , Milwaukee Brewers
  Milwaukee Brewers
  The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
  
   baseball player 1976 1977
• Kellen Winslow
  Kellen Winslow
  Kellen Boswell Winslow is a former American football tight end with the Missouri Tigers and the San Diego Chargers. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest tight ends in the history of the game. He is currently the athletic director at Central State University.Winslow did not play high...
  
  , graduated 1975, NFL Hall of Fame tight end.

External links

• East St. Louis Sr. High School page at East St. Louis Public Schools