Limestone Community High School District 310

Limestone Community High School is a public high school in Bartonville, Peoria County, Illinois. As of 2017, the school had an average enrollment of 1,067 students[1] and average full-time equivalent of 76 teachers.[2]

Limestone Community High School the only general high school of Limestone Community High School District 310; the district also operates the high school program of the Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center.[3]

History

Before the 1950s, Bartonville had no high school of its own; students went to Pekin or Peoria, and their expenses were paid for by a non-high-school district, but without control over the schools the students were attending. Consolidating with other school districts was considered, but it was determined that joining Peoria Public Schools District 150 would require annexation into the city of Peoria, and that neither the Elmwood or the Glasford school districts had the capacity to take on the 570 students in the area. A group of educators and other citizens decided that the only solution was to build a high school.[4]

A public election on February 5, 1949, voted District 310 into existence; and, on March 14, the board of education first met and elected its officers.[4]

Limestone Community High School opened on October 14, 1953. It was annexed into the village of Bartonville in June 1957.[4]

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Limestone Community High School (9-12): Enrollment". Illinois Report Card. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Board of Education. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  2. "Limestone Community High School (9-12): Demographics". Illinois Report Card. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Board of Education. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  3. "Limestone CHSD 310: Schools In District". Illinois Report Card. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Board of Education. Archived from the original on 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  4. History of Bartonville, Illinois. Bartonville, Illinois: Village of Bartonville - Bartonville Bicentennial Commission - Heritage Committee. 1976. pp. 78–79. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
  5. Duvall, Adam (2016-07-29). "1984 Olympian Mike Dunne hopes baseball will return permanently to the Games". PJStar.com. GateHouse Media. Archived from the original on 2016-07-29. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  6. "Peoria to Cooperstown: Getting to know Jim Thome, Peoria's Hall of Famer". PJStar.com. GateHouse Media. 2018-07-28. Archived from the original on 2018-07-29.


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