A unified school district (in the states of Arizona, California, Kansas and Oregon) or unit school district (in Illinois), in the United States of America, is a school district that generally includes and operates both primary schools ( kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high schools (grades 9–12) under the same district control.
7-502: Egyptian Community Unit School District 5 , also known locally as Egyptian School District or CUSD #5 , is a unified school district headquartered in unincorporated Alexander County , Illinois , with a Tamms postal address. Brad Misner is the current superintendent, while Bret Gowin is the principal for all grades serviced by the district. The school district is composed of Egyptian Elementary School , Egyptian Middle School , and Egyptian Senior High School . The district includes
14-464: A joint effort between Tamms Community High School and Thebes High School in 1964. The district spent $ 20,000 to buy land for new centralized facilities with the location chosen to approximate that of the geographic center and that central to the distribution of the students. In October 1966 construction started, and opening occurred in 1968. In 2007 the district received a $ 45,260 grant intended to expand teaching of other languages and other courses in
21-452: Is a major example of a unified school district in California. In California and Illinois, and possibly other states, unified or unit school districts are not the same as consolidated or union school districts , which are generally formed by the consolidation of multiple school districts of the same type. In Kansas, the unified school districts developed after legislation passed in 1962 that
28-472: The arts fields. In 2011 the school received a federal grant to improve test scores, which at the time were among the lowest in Illinois. The campus, located south of the community of Diswood , is on 40 acres (16 ha) of land and has a total of 84,000 square feet (7,800 m) building space. The elementary and secondary classroom buildings, on the southern and western parts of the campus, respectively, have
35-450: The municipalities and census-designated places of Tamms, Olive Branch , Thebes , and Unity . It also includes unincorporated areas of Elco and Sandusky . In addition to Alexander County, it includes a small part of Pulaski County . It was created on July 1, 1963 by the consolidation of six school districts. Initially the district had eight different school buildings. The Egyptian School District high school athletic program became
42-422: The shape of a circle. The 1,400-seat gymnasium is in the north end; the stage is on the north face and there are six basketball goals and two basketball courts. The 270-seat cafeteria is by the main entrance. Unified school district This distinction is predominant in states where elementary school districts and high school districts are, or were, generally separate. The Los Angeles Unified School District
49-505: Was intended to reduce the number of rural school districts. After the law's passage, the number of districts in Kansas dropped dramatically. In 1947, there were over 3,000 districts. After the unification law and establishment of unified school districts, their number dropped to under 400. In Arizona, unified school districts elect 5 school board members. Common school districts have elected boards consisting of 3 members. Some other states use
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