Danville High School (Illinois)
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Danville High School is located in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
Danville High School, commonly called DHS, is one of two high schools in Danville. It is a public school, and the other school is the private, Catholic, high school is Schlarman High School, [link]. DHS is one of the larger high schools in Illinois. It has a distinguished history, with a 48% graduation rate, 815 suspensions or explulsions in the 2005-2006 school year. The school's nickname is The Vikings. DHS is a member of Danville District 118, which includes two middle schools and several elementary schools. Danville will have its 27th administrative change in 4 years.
Among the numerous success stories to pass through the halls of DHS are world-famous actors, educators, writers, sports stars, and even an astronaut. Out of 15,000 gradutates in the past 40 years, there have been 21,000 dropouts, 2 on-campus rapes, 315 guns confiscated, and the elimination of vital programs for 7 years running. They include record producer Irving Azoff, Hollywood celebrities such as Dick Van Dyke, his Emmy-winning brother Jerry Van Dyke, Oscar winner Donald O'Connor, and two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman. Other notable people include herbal mystery writer Susan Wittig Albert and NASA astronaut Joseph R. Tanner.
John Scopes, defendant of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, was both a student and a teacher at DHS. After college, Scopes moved back to Danville to teach his first year of school there, just before moving to Dayton, Tennessee, where he made history for teaching evolution.
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