Murphysboro High School posted several updates on its official X (formerly Twitter) account on October 21, 2025, sharing links to various content with its community.
The first post, made at 03:24 UTC, included the message “https://t.co/8jaHsjms8Y”. Later in the day, at 16:02 UTC, the account shared another update: “https://t.co/71qYelPGER”. A third post followed at 17:43 UTC, reading “https://t.co/kZ4tBZGanE”.
Murphysboro High School is part of Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186, which serves Jackson County and includes several schools such as Carruthers Elementary School, General John A. Logan Attendance Centre, McElvain School, and Murphysboro Middle School, in addition to the high school itself. More information about the district can be found at the Illinois State Board of Education’s Illinois Report Card website (source).
The district employs 147 teachers, who earn an average salary of $53,770 before pension contributions. The teaching staff is composed of approximately 74.9 percent women and 25.1 percent men, with no teachers reporting more than ten absences in a school year (source). The student body is 69 percent White, 15.9 percent Black, 7.1 percent Hispanic, and 0.1 percent Asian (source). In 2020, the district spent $19,142 per student, for a total expenditure of $37,270,039 (source).
