Edwardsville Senior High School is a public high school located in Edwardsville, Illinois. It currently serves over 2,500 students and contains grades 9-12, and served 2,456 students in the 2012-2013 school year. It is the only high school in the Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7 (simply known as "District 7"), and with six Primary elementary schools, four intermediate schools, and 2 middle schools, EHS is a funneling point for all District 7 students from Edwardsville and Glen Carbon north, up to Worden, Moro, Dorsey, Hamel, and Holiday Shores. This encompasses almost an entire portion of the county from I-270 north between I-55 and Illinois State Route 255 (excluding Bethalto, which has its own high school) north to the Madison county line.HistoryEdwardsville High School was first located on North Kansas Street in downtown Edwardsville, and today that building is Columbus Elementary School, with several hundred square feet of space on the third floor which is used primarily as additional District 7 offices. The second Edwardsville High School was completed in 1925. It was expanded over the years creating a labyrinth of halls to form what is today Lincoln Middle School, on 145 West Street. The current Edwardsville High School complex was completed in 1996 by the Korte Company of Highland, Illinois, and is located by the intersection of Illinois Route 157 and Center Grove Road, near the entrance to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, the largest university in the U.S. In terms of property space. While the current building was completed in 1996, it sat empty and unused until 1997 because the brick facing used on the building was lighter than what had been asked for in the design.
