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17 Aug 2020
Jacksonville’s K-12 schools offer children of residents a top-notch education. The Jacksonville Region is dedicated to providing high-quality education to children of the community. The Jacksonville School District #117 educates over 3,400 students each year. The School District has the broadest curriculum in the region educating students on agriculture, business, sciences, healthcare occupations, trades education, and technical education, among other core classes.
Jacksonville has three parochial schools – Our Savior Grade School, Routt Catholic High School, and Westfair Christian. Jacksonville is also home to the Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD) and the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired (ISV). Click here to learn more about Jacksonville’s great education system.
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The City of Jacksonville is located in west central Illinois, 35 miles west of Springfield, the state capital. It is the county seat of Morgan County and one of the oldest towns in the Land of Lincoln, founded in 1825. Jacksonville was established by Yankee settlers from New England, who laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings, and established post routes. They were part of a wave of European/American farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory, during the early 1800s. Download Here!