Beardstown CUSD 15

Beardstown Community Unit School District 15 is a unified school district located in the Cass County, Illinois city of its namesake: Beardstown. While the grand majority of the students in the district are white, almost 35% of the ethnicity of the Beardstown Community Unit School District 15 is Hispanic. This is also evident in the bilingual text of the school district's website There are four schools located within this district. Grand Avenue School serves the district's preschoolers; Brick Elementary School coaches students in grades between first and fourth; Gard Elementary School, serves a broader range of students than Brick, including grades K-5; lastly, Beardstown Middle/High School, alternatively known as Beardstown Junior Senior High School, serves grades 6-12. The superintendent as of May 2008 is Robert Bagby. The principals of each of the respective schools are Terri Olsen of Grand Avenue School; Cheryl Summers of Gard Elementary School; , and a principal named Fitzgerald who governs over Beardstown Middle/High School. Superintendent Bagby also serves as principal of Brick Elementary School. The mascot of all schools in the district is the tiger. Read more...