Gallatin Community Unit School District 7

Gallatin Community Unit School District 7 is a school district covering most of Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. It operates a single campus, the Gallatin County Educational Complex, also known as Gallatin County School, which is divided into a grade school, junior high school, and high school, between Equality and Junction in Equality Township, Gallatin County, Illinois.

Gallatin County Community Unit School District 7
Address
5175 Highway 13, Junction, Illinois 62954
Gallatin County, Illinois
Coordinates37°44′24″N 88°16′38″W
District information
TypeUnit district
GradesPre-K–12
EstablishedJuly 1, 1987 (1987-07-01)[1]
Budget$6,718,132 (expenditure as of 2014)[2]
NCES District ID1700045[3]
District ID20-030-0070-26
Students and staff
Students781 (as of 2016)[2]
Teachers53 (full-time equivalent as of 2016)[2]
Student–teacher ratio
  • 18.4 (elementary as of 2016)[2]
  • 15.9 (high school as of 2016)[2]
Other information
Websitewww.gallatincusd7.com

As of 2015 there were 213 high school students enrolled.[4]

History

Previous schools

The New Haven School was closed in 1973.[5]

Shawneetown High School in new Shawneetown was closed in 1991; students then went to the newly built Gallatin High School.[6]

CUSD 7

The school district was established on July 1, 1987, by the consolidation of North Gallatin Community Unit School District 1, Southeast Gallatin Community Unit School District 2, and Equality Community Unit School District 4.[1]

The educational complex opened in August 1991, taking in students that were at Equality, Ridgway, and Shawneetown.[7]

References
  1. "School District Reorganizations: 1983-84 to 2016-17" (PDF). Illinois State Board of Education. July 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  2. "Illinois District Report Card: Gallatin CUSD 7" (PDF). Illinois State Board of Education. 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  3. "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Gallatin CUSD 7". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  4. "Gallatin High School Report Card". IIRC. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  5. "New Haven: Pecan Country". Gallatin County Students Welcome You to the Gateway to Illinois. Archived from the original on August 23, 2002. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  6. "New Shawneetown". Gallatin County Students Welcome You to the Gateway to Illinois. Archived from the original on May 1, 1998. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  7. "Junction: Home of the Island Riffle Watermelons !". Gallatin County Students Welcome You to the Gateway to Illinois. Archived from the original on April 2, 2008. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
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