J. Sterling Morton High School District 201
| J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 | |
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| 5041 W. 31st St. Cicero, Illinois |
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| District information | |
| Type | public secondary district |
| Established | 1890s |
| Superintendent | Dr. Michael L. Kuzniewski |
| Enrollment | 7,945 |
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| Website | www |
J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 is a school district headquartered in Cicero, Illinois, United States. The district serves the city of Berwyn, the town of Cicero, and the villages of Lyons and Stickney. A small section of McCook also lies in the district boundaries. The school district is named after Julius Sterling Morton, Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture during his second term, who is best known for founding Arbor Day. The district and its schools are named after Morton because he was friends with Cicero resident and fur trader Portus Baxter Weare.
The district competes in Illinois High School Association athletics as a unified school with the shortened name "Berwyn-Cicero (Morton)".
The district is composed of four campuses:
Students living west of Ridgeland Avenue are zoned to Morton West while those living east of Ridgeland Avenue are zoned to Morton East. Areas west of Ridgeland Avenue include most of Berwyn, Stickney, and Lyons, while areas east of Ridgeland Avenue include Cicero and a portion of Berwyn.
In 1892, there were reports that the town of Cicero was beginning to work to consolidate a school district that would include the then current Morton Park and Hawthorne District with one consisting of the towns of Clyde and LaVergne, to create what was called a "High School Department".
Cicero-Stickney Township High School (with "Clyde P.O.") was established as a township high school district in 1898 with 4 teachers and 44 students. By the 1903–1904 school year, it was one of the 33 township high school districts in Illinois, and had 10 teachers and 130 students, with 8 students graduating that year. The principal for the 1904–1905 school year was H. V. Church.
Berwyn is in the district because it had not yet been created out of Cicero when the district was formed. A portion of Stickney is in the district because state law at the time required a township high school district to comprise parts of two or more townships. Lyons was annexed to the district by public petition in 1920. By then, the name "J. Sterling Morton High School" was already in use for the high school, though the legal name was "Cicero-Stickney Township High School".
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