Mount Carmel High School (Mount Carmel, Illinois)
Mt. Carmel High School | |
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201 N Pear St. Mt. Carmel , 62863 United States | |
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Type | Public high school |
School district | Wabash Community Unit School District #348 |
Principal | Jake Newkirk |
Faculty | 30 (FTE)[1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 482 (2018-19)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 16.07[1] |
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Athletics conference | Independent since 2019 |
Team name | Golden Aces |
Rival | Harrisburg High School
Princeton Community High School[2] |
Website | Mt. Carmel High School |
Mount Carmel High School is a public high school in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. It is the only high school in Wabash County, Illinois, which is in southern Illinois, just across the Wabash River from Gibson County, Indiana. Other towns that send students to MCHS include Allendale, Patton, Keensburg, and Friendsville. Enrollment is also possible for residents of Cowling, although their students are usually sent to the nearby school in Grayville.
Athletics[]
Teams[]
Mt. Carmel's athletic teams are nicknamed the Golden Aces and the school's colors are maroon and gold. The school received the nickname during the 1915-1916 basketball season. Before then, the school's athletic teams were called the Maroon & Gold. The boy's basketball team participated in a tournament in the Wood River area and won the tournament championship. A sportswriter for the area said that the team played like "Five Golden Aces." The players and students like it and teams have competed as the Golden Aces ever since.
The Aces have been competing independently since 2019 when a new format in IHSA playoffs meant that Mount Carmel had to withdraw from the Big Eight Conference which has since folded. Mount Carmel competes in the following sports as an independent school:[3]
- Boys Basketball
- Girls Basketball
- Football
- Softball
- Baseball
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
- Boys Tract
- Girls Track
- Cross Country
- Boys Golf
- Girls Golf
- Boys Tennis
- Girls Tennis
- Boys Soccer
- Girls Soccer
State championships[]
Basketball
- 1927 State Champions[4]
Football
- 1981 3A State Champions[5]
Boys Golf
- 2010 1A State Champions[6]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Mount Carmel High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ^ "Mt. Carmel (IL) High School Sports - Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, and more | MaxPreps".
- ^ http://mchswabash348.blogspot.com/p/atheltics.html
- ^ "Orr routs Mount Carmel, joins city royalty with first state championship".
- ^ "Fire up, Aces fans! Fire up! Mount Carmel football announcing trio retires, setting the standard from the booth for over 25 years".
- ^ "BOYS GOLF PREVIEW: Golden Aces confident after first tournament".
External links[]
- Statistics from the Illinois Interactive Report Card, hosted at Northern Illinois University
- Illinois K12 District 348
- Mount Carmel High School
Coordinates: 38°24′34″N 87°45′16″W / 38.40944°N 87.75444°W
- Public high schools in Illinois
- Mount Carmel, Illinois
- Schools in Wabash County, Illinois
- Big Eight Conference (IHSAA)
- Illinois school stubs