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The following is a list of Illinois High School Association member conferences. Schools that belong to these conferences compete with each other on a local level in athletics and non-athletic activities. As of the 2023-24 school year, there are 70 conferences within the IHSA.
Twenty-three Illinoisans are members of the National High School Hall of Fame sponsored by the NFHS. The honorees include: H. V. Porter (1982) was an IHSA and NFHS administrator who coined the term "March Madness". [87] Dwight (Dike) Eddleman (1983) was a three-sport athlete (football, basketball, athletics) at Centralia High School. [87]
The reduction of schools forced the league to reach out for additional members, however, Richards, a brand new high school, was the only team to join. The last team to join this original version of the South Suburban was Thornwood in 1972, the same year the school opened.
The school now continues to see a steady decline in enrollment with an IHSA classification enrollment of just 575.5 students for the two year cycle of 2023-25. [8] Enrollment is projected to further decrease due to high property taxes in the area, [ 9 ] and the district having a debt burden which is expected to increase significantly [ 10 ] and ...
The Big Twelve Conference is a high school athletic conference in the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), based in Central Illinois.While the name implies that the conference has twelve schools, there are actually only eleven schools currently active, due to other schools either closing, ending offering varsity athletics, or changing conferences.
The Interstate Eight Conference (Interstate 8 or I–8) is an athletic conference of Illinois high schools that are members of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). ). The conference currently has six member schools throughout Northern Illinois that compete in 12 different sports (boys' basketball, girls' basketball, girls' volleyball, boys' golf, girls' golf, football, boys' soccer ...
It has an enrollment of approximately 609 students. The school is a member of Illinois High School Association as a Class 2A member of the River to River Conference (Mississippi Division). Carterville's mascot is the Lion and the school colors are orange and navy blue. The high school moved into a new facility for the 2011–2012 school year.
The Little Ten Conference is the oldest continuous high school athletic conference in the state of Illinois.Founded in 1919, it comprised the following small high schools in northern Illinois: Earlville, Hinckley, Leland, Paw Paw, Plano, Rollo, Sandwich, Shabbona, Somonauk, and Waterman.