The History of Yale High School
Yale (population 97) is located in southeastern Illinois in northeastern Jasper County. The village
is located about 25 miles east of Effingham and 50 miles south of Urbana. Illinois Route 49 is the main roadway to and
from Yale. County Highway 6 intersects with Route 49 in Yale. Yale is about three blocks from north to south and
five blocks from east to west.
We currently have a very limited amount of information on Yale High School. Our understanding is that Yale was
like its neighbor from the east,
Annapolis, in that it was probably a two-year high school. We are guessing that Yale stopped offering high school curriculum
in the late 1940s. It was likely that the grade school closed sometime after that.
Richard Phillips tells us the kids of Yale today attend high school in Newton, as do all kids of Jasper
County.
Yale High School Quick Facts
Year opened:
late 1800s
Year closed:
1940s?
Consolidated to:
unavailable
Athletics
It is remembered by Claude Piersall that the kids from Annapolis played the kids from Yale each
year in a softball game or two. It is also possible that Yale kids competed in basketball, however we are unable
to confirm this.
Below are pages from the 1940 and 1941 school yearbooks of Yale. They show that
indeed, softball was a sport at the school.
