Peotone High School
| Peotone High School | |
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| Address | |
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605 W. North Street Peotone, Illinois 60468 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°30′50″N 87°55′47″W / 41.5138°N 87.9298°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public Secondary |
| Opened | 2001 |
| School district | Peotone Community Unit School District 207-U |
| Superintendent | Steve Stein |
| Principal | Mr. Tyler Hesh |
| Staff | 128 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Enrollment | 679 |
| Average class size | 18.4 |
| Campus size | 30 acres |
| Area | South Suburbs |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Song | On, You Devils! |
| Athletics conference | South Suburban Conference |
| Mascot | Blue Devils |
| Average ACT scores | 20.8 |
| Newspaper | The Devil's Advocate |
| Yearbook | Promethean |
| Website | http://phs.peotoneschools.org |
Peotone High School or PHS, is a four-year high school located approximately 1 mile east of Interstate 57 near the intersection of Corning Ave and Rathje Rd in Peotone, Illinois, a village located 43 miles (69 km) south of Chicago, Illinois and 16 miles (25 km) north of Kankakee, Illinois, in the United States. It is one of six schools in the Peotone Community Unit School District 207-U, one of the geographically largest school districts in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Peotone High School serves students from the south, central and eastern region of Will County, and a small portion of northwestern Kankakee County. This includes Green Garden, Manhattan, Peotone, Rockville, Will and Wilton townships.
Peotone Community Unit School District 207-U is one of the longest surviving school districts in Will County. The high school's location has changed twice since 1954, due to overpopulation in the growing community. Construction began on the current Peotone High School in 2000, barely being completed at the start of the school year on September 4, 2001.
The current enrollment at Peotone High School is 679. Ethnicity is 89.6% White, 7% Hispanic/Latino and 3.4% all others. 13.8% of students lie within the low income bracket. The attendance rate is 94%, and the graduation rate is 93.2%.
PHS offers a wide variety of curriculum for its students to choose from. Departments include Agriculture, Business, Family and Consumer Sciences, Industrial Technology, Media and Technology, English, Foreign Language (Spanish is the only Foreign Language offered after the Class of 2009), Fine Arts, Mathematics, Health and Physical Education, Science, and Social Studies. Peotone offers AP courses in US History, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Chemistry and Calculus AB. Peotone also has a Special Education program.
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