{"id":448,"date":"2017-02-14T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=448"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:17:02","slug":"alton-community-unit-school-district-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/alton-community-unit-school-district-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Alton Community Unit School District #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alton Community Unit School District #11 was consolidated and renumerated in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The Superintendent of Alton Community Unit School District #11 in 1952 was Dr. J.B. Johnson. Members of its Board of Education were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"text\">\n<li>Dr. Robert B. Lynn<\/li>\n<li>George L. Davis<\/li>\n<li>Robert L. Goulding<\/li>\n<li>Charles R. Freeman<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Charles J. Hemphill<\/li>\n<li>E.P. Waterhouse<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Middleton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, the Alton Community Unit School District #11 is comprised of the following schools: \u00a0Alton High School, Alton Middle School, East Elementary School, North Elementary School, West Elementary School, Lovejoy Elementary School, Lewis and Clark Elementary School, Gibson Brown Elementary School, Eunice Smith Elementary School, Early Childhood Center, and the Motivational Achievement Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Alton Community Unit School District #11 provides education to the following areas of Madison County:<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-9 col-md-offset-1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/SchoolDistricts\/AltonSchoolDist.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alton-School-Dist-1-1024x777.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alton-School-Dist-1-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alton-School-Dist-1-700x531.jpg 700w, https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alton-School-Dist-1-768x582.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alton Community Unit School District #11 in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roe41.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madison County Regional Office of Education<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the Alton Community Unit School District #11 homepage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altonschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>For more, see this Oral History<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-oral-histories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/905\">John Cunningham Oral History Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alton Community Unit School District #11 was consolidated and renumerated in 1952. The Superintendent of Alton Community Unit School District #11 in 1952 was Dr. J.B. Johnson. Members of its Board of Education were: Dr. Robert B. Lynn George L. Davis Robert L. Goulding Charles R. Freeman Dr. Charles J. Hemphill E.P. Waterhouse Jerry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"article.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,16,19,3,72,25,50],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20th-century","category-21st-century","category-alton","category-cottage-hills","category-education","category-fosterburg","category-godfrey","category-wood-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}