Brown County CUSD 1

Brown County Community Unit School District 1 is a unified school district located in Mount Sterling, the county seat of Brown County, Illinois; it was created out of sixty-seven individual school districts and one parochial school. Today, the district has three schools: Brown County Elementary School, Brown County Middle School, and Brown County High School. The current superintendent is Merle Kenady, and the mascot of the school is the Hornet.

Brown County Community Unit School District 1 was created, as previously mentioned, out of sixty-seven school districts and one private parochial school; with the passing of the School Survey Law through the government of the state of Illinois, a committee was formed in Brown County to evaluate and, if necessary, reorganize the schools in the county. After their survey was completed, the committee proposed to consolidate the elementary school districts of Brown County into one. This was subsequently passed via referendum on May 16, 1947, although the legislature proceeded to permit the consolidation of all schools in the county into one district one month later. J. Russell Morris was chosen as the first superintendent of the district. Read more...