Community Unit School District 20
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Community Unit School District 20 is a unified school district
located in the southern Illinois
town of Lawrenceville
, the county seat of Lawrence County. Altogether, the district has three schools; one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school. The district elementary school, Parkside Elementary School, serves kindergarten through grade five; it also runs a prekindergarten program. The school is run by principal Barbara Large;Parkview Junior High School, which educates students in grades six through eight, is run by Corrie Ray.Lawrenceville High School, originally known as Lawrence Township High School, is the last branch of education in the district. It serves grades nine through twelve, and is headed by Paul Higginbotham.The district superintendent is Charles Stegall.
Lawrenceville High School is home to a variety of clubs, including a National Beta Club
, an FFA
club, a Spanish
club, a drama
club, and a varsity Scholastic Bowl team. The high school also runs a choir and band.
Parkview Junior High School also sports a Beta Club, a drama club, and a Scholastic Bowl team, although it is by limited in comparison to the number of clubs at Lawrenceville High School. They also have a band in Southern Illinois
Unified school district
A unified school district or unit school district is a school district which includes both primary school and high school under the same district control....
located in the southern Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
town of Lawrenceville
Lawrenceville, Illinois
Lawrenceville is a city in Lawrence County, Illinois, along the Embarras River. The population was 4,745 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lawrence County...
, the county seat of Lawrence County. Altogether, the district has three schools; one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school. The district elementary school, Parkside Elementary School, serves kindergarten through grade five; it also runs a prekindergarten program. The school is run by principal Barbara Large;Parkview Junior High School, which educates students in grades six through eight, is run by Corrie Ray.Lawrenceville High School, originally known as Lawrence Township High School, is the last branch of education in the district. It serves grades nine through twelve, and is headed by Paul Higginbotham.The district superintendent is Charles Stegall.
Lawrenceville High School is home to a variety of clubs, including a National Beta Club
National Beta Club
The National Beta Club is an organization for 5th-12th graders in the United States, recognizing academic achievement, leadership, character and service....
, an FFA
National FFA Organization
The National FFA Organization is an American youth organization known as a Career and Technical Student Organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education...
club, a Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
club, a drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
club, and a varsity Scholastic Bowl team. The high school also runs a choir and band.
Parkview Junior High School also sports a Beta Club, a drama club, and a Scholastic Bowl team, although it is by limited in comparison to the number of clubs at Lawrenceville High School. They also have a band in Southern Illinois