Roxana High School
| Roxana High School | |
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| Address | |
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403 Chaffer Avenue Roxana, Illinois 62084 USA |
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| Coordinates | 38°51′05″N 90°04′34″W / 38.8513°N 90.076°WCoordinates: 38°51′05″N 90°04′34″W / 38.8513°N 90.076°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public Coedhigh school |
| Founded | 1941 |
| School district | Roxana Community Unit School District #1 |
| Superintendent | Mrs. Debra Krueztzrager |
| CEEB code | 143765 |
| Principal | Mr. Tom Roth |
| Teaching staff | 123 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 623 |
| Average class size | 18.4 |
| Hours in school day | 7 hours, 40 minutes; divided into 4 blocks |
| Campus type | Suburban/Urban rural fringe |
| Color(s) |
Scarlet, Gold, & Blue |
| Fight song | "Youth of America March" by Dr. Paul V. Yoder |
| Athletics | Illinois High School Association |
| Athletics conference | South Central Conference |
| Team name | Shells |
| Newspaper | The Roxette |
| Yearbook | The Rox |
| Website | Official website |
Roxana High School is a secondary school in Roxana, Illinois, United States. The school's mascot is the shell, named for the former Shell Oil (now ConocoPhillips) refinery also located in the town. The school district encompasses all of Roxana, South Roxana, and parts of Wood River, Edwardsville and Rosewood Heights.
The area around Roxana began offering education in 1802 with the construction of Gilham's Pasture School on the northeast corner of what is now 13th Street and Edwardsville Road in Wood River, the current site of a Dairy Queen. Other general schools opened and closed throughout the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century; these include Brushy Grove School (not to be confused with its later incarnation, Brushey Grove School) from 1858 to 1969, Roxana School from 1918 to 1926, Edison School from 1926 to 1936, and Burbank School starting in 1936. Burbank was built as a WPA project, and was named after botanist Luther Burbank.
The school district did not have a secondary school at that time; Roxana students went to other districts for their education instead, primarily Wood River High School, which had opened in 1925. In 1939, citizens of Roxana and part of neighboring Wood River voted to form a new school district; the high school itself was built in 1941 and has been added to throughout its tenure.
The original building had three stories, comprising twelve classrooms, a main office, a library, and a gymnasium. A larger gym was added in 1954.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the district included four elementary schools: Central, Rosewood Heights, Burbank and South Roxana. Roxana Junior High School was built adjacent to the high school; today, they are one contiguous building. Central, Rosewood, South Roxana, and the Junior High buildings were all constructed simultaneously with the 1954 erection of the large gymnasium at the high school.
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