Glenwood High School (Illinois)
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1501 East Plummer Blvd. Chatham, Illinois, (Sangamon County) 62629 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°41′22″N 89°41′22″W / 39.6895°N 89.6894°WCoordinates: 39°41′22″N 89°41′22″W / 39.6895°N 89.6894°W |
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| School type | Public, Coeducational |
| Status | 1 |
| School board | Ball Chatham Community Unit School District 5 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Douglas Wood |
| Principal | Jim Lee |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1388 (2014) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Red, Black and White |
| Song | Fight Song |
| Athletics conference | Central State Eight |
| Mascot | Titans |
| Team name | Titans (Previously known as Redskins) (m)/ Redskins (f) |
| Newspaper | Titan Torch |
| Athletic Director | Dusty Burke |
| Website | www |
Glenwood High School is a public high school in Chatham, Illinois. It is the only high school of Ball Chatham Community Unit School District 5, which is in southern Sangamon County and includes Chatham, Glenarm, and the southern portion of Springfield, Illinois. As of 2014[update], Glenwood High School had 1,388 students and an average class size of 300.
Ball Township High School, sometimes called Ball Township Community High School, opened in September 1923 with 35 students; 2 seniors graduated at the end of the 1923–1924 school year. The school was established on New City Road, approximately four miles east of Chatham, three miles north and one mile east of Glenarm.
There were numerous additions to the original school building, including the 1935 gymnasium.
Ball Township graduated 21 seniors in May 1948, after which it picked up all the students from Chatham High School. The first combined Ball Township graduating class, under Ball Chatham Community Unit School District 5, was 34 seniors in May 1949.
The last Ball Township High School graduating class was 1956, with 43 students; students moved to the first Glenwood High School when it opened in March 1957. Since then various combinations of grades have used the Ball Township site. The original 1924 section of the school was torn down in June 2013, but newer sections remain and continue to be used as Ball Elementary School.
The Caldwell School was a combination grade school and high school built in 1895, paid for by local resident Ben Franklin Caldwell, who later became a state representative and state senator in the Illinois General Assembly and afterwards a congressman. The 1895 schoolhouse burnt down in 1904, and a new one built in 1905. Chatham High School, operating in this Cadlwell School, was a recognized 4-year high school until 1919; it was reduced to 2 years from 1919 to May 1924, then extended to 3 years from 1924 to 1938.
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