| Address: | 500 East 15th Street |
| City: | Beardstown |
| State: | Illinois |
| Zipcode: | 62618 |
| Type: | Public |
| Grades: | PreK–12 |
| Students: | 1,415 (2020–2021) |
Beardstown Community Unit School District 15 is a unit school district located in the Cass County, Illinois city of its namesake: Beardstown. The majority of students in the district are white, but the district also has a 35% Hispanic population[1] and has many bilingual students.[2]
There are three schools located within this district. Grand Avenue School serves the district's preschoolers; Gard Elementary School grades kindergarten through fourth; lastly, Beardstown Middle/High School, also known as Beardstown Junior Beardstown Junior/Senior High School,[3] serves grades 6 - 12. The superintendent is Reggie Clinton.[4], the principals of each of the respective schools are Pam DeSollar of Grand Avenue School, Steve Groll of Gard/Brick Elementary Schools, and Scott Riddle of Beardstown Middle/High School. The mascot for all schools in the district is the tiger.
Brick School, built in 1927 and expanded in 1950 and 1990,[5] closed at the end of the 2013 - 2014 school year;[6] the school board voted on September 20, 2014, to sell the Brick School property.[7]