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Peoria Public Schools District 150, also known as Peoria Public Schools (PPS), is a school district headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. The district is in Peoria County . It includes most of Peoria, as well as much of West Peoria and sections of Bartonville .
Richwoods High School is the most northern of the three regular public high schools in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Opened as a township high school in 1957, it was brought into Peoria Public Schools District 150 in the 1960s. Feeder middle schools are Mark Bills, Liberty Leadership, Rolling Acres, Von Steuben, and Reservoir Gifted.
Peoria high won the first Illinois state championship for basketball in 1908. [3] They also won the first state track and field championship in May 1893. [3] Peoria High is a member of the Big Twelve Conference (Illinois) in athletics, and the school mascot is the Lions. The school mascot was the Maroons until the late 1940s when it was changed.
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The schools merged into one co-educational school, Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute in 1973. [2] AOL/SI (also known as Academy/Spalding) was merged with Bergan High School to form Peoria Notre Dame High School in 1988, and the campus was closed at the end of the 1988–1989 school year.
See the schedule of Illinois high school football games in the Peoria area in Week 2 of the IHSA season.