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Sparta High School (Illinois)
Sparta High School or SHS, is a high school that is located in Sparta, Il. It is located thirty miles southeast of St. Louis, Il. Sparta High school is in the Sparta community district 140. Sparta High School is represented with a Bulldog as their mascot.

About SHS
Sparta high school is a four year community high school. There are three junior high schools that all link to the high school: Evansville, Tilden, and Sparta. This completes the population for the school and all of the surroundings around. The population of Sparta High school is every little bit of 430 students. It is a smaller high school but is required by the state to have every learning and teaching supplies as a bigger high school. The high school is run by a successful office staff. The staff has seventy six crew members that have a certain amount of degree and is certified to keep the school in good shape. The school has a very unusual variety of students that attend school each year. In the school 44.9% of the students come from a low-income household, which is a very high number. Only 77.4% of the kids in the school actually end up graduating from freshman to senior year. There is a wide variety of race in the school, 79.1% are white, 14.9% are black, and 4.9% students are multiracial. http://schools.chicagotribune.com/school/sparta-high-school_sparta

Athletics
Sparta High School has a good sports program. The school has nine sports with a good number of coaches. Sparta High School competes in baseball, football, basketball, cross country, track & field, cheerleading, volleyball, softball, and women’s basketball. The coaches all have a past in sports and will push the athletes as far as they can to enhance their performance, and help them make it to the next level. The track program is the most successful sport in the high school with three state trophies. In 2004 the team won the state championship, 2003 they placed second, and in 2006 they finished third. Track and field is the only sport in Sparta High School history to win a state trophy. The coach of the track team Mark North, was the coach of the state champion team. He coached in Sparta for thirty straight years. Mark retired after the 2001 school year and will be remember in Sparta High School as one of the greats. http://hs.sparta.k12.il.us/athletics/athletics.shtml

SHS Education Stats
In 2010-2011 Sparta High Schools average on the ACT was a 19.1, which is low compared to the averages of other schools. Sparta is now offering six AP subjects that will enhance a student’s education and will prepare them for college. The Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) is a test that all juniors will take in high school. 42.9% of Sparta’s students met or exceeded the standards. Those results were better than 23% of all high schools in the state of Illinois. Sparta High currently is trying to figure out a program to enhance the students test scores. http://schools.chicagotribune.com/school/sparta-high-school_sparta