United Senior High School (Illinois)

United High School
Location
1905 100th Street
Monmouth, Illinois
USA
Coordinates 40°54′29″N 90°35′31″W / 40.90802°N 90.59191°W / 40.90802; -90.59191Coordinates: 40°54′29″N 90°35′31″W / 40.90802°N 90.59191°W / 40.90802; -90.59191
Information
Type Public secondary
Principal Ms. Amy Schmitz
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 275
Campus Rural, fringe
Color(s) Red, Black, White
Mascot Red Storm
Website United High School

United High School, also known as United Senior High School, or UHS, is a public four-year high school located at 1905 100th Street near Monmouth, Illinois, a city of Warren County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. UHS is part of United Community Unit School District 304, which also includes United Junior High School, United North Elementary School, and United West Elementary School.[1] Despite the Alexis United misnomer sometimes used to describe the high school, the campus is actually located 2 miles east of Monmouth, IL, though there is a fieldhouse sometimes utilized for activities in Alexis, Illinois that is part of the district's north campus and elementary school. The school serves a mixed city fringe, village, and rural residential community on the outskirts of the city of Monmouth, in the villages of Alexis, Kirkwood, Little York, North Henderson, and the unincorporated communities of Cameron and Gerlaw.[2] Much of the school district is within the Galesburg micropolitan statistical area.[3] United High School was formed by the consolidation of Alexis High School and Monmouth Warren High School in 2004.[4][5] In 2007 Monmouth Yorkwood High School deactivated and was annexed into United High School.[6]

Athletics

United High School competes in the Lincoln Trail Conference and is a member school in the Illinois High School Association. Its mascot is the Red Storm.[7] The school has 2 state championships on record in team athletics and activities, Boys Football in 2004.[8] In 2010, their football team lost in the Quarterfinals to Lexington, the eventual State Runner-Up. In 2011, their girls softball team won the state championship, after having claimed 2 runner-up finishes and a third-place finish as well. Katie Bertelsen, the pitcher for that softball team, became the first athlete in United history to play a sport for a Division I school. She is currently in her freshman year at Southern Illinois-Carbondale.

References

  1. ↑ http://united.k12.il.us/
  2. ↑ http://www.ihsa.org/school/schools/1338.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/09statab/app2.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.illinoishsglorydays.com/id23.html
  5. ↑ http://www.illinoishsglorydays.com/id220.html
  6. ↑ http://www.illinoishsglorydays.com/id712.html
  7. ↑ http://www.ihsa.org/school/schools/1338.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.ihsa.org/school/records/sum1338.htm
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