Murphysboro High School announced on its official X account that the IHSA Class 2A Boys Basketball Regional Semifinals at Benton are scheduled for Wednesday.
On February 25, 2026, Murphysboro High School posted: “IHSA Class 2A Boys Basketball Regional Semifinals at Benton are set for Wednesday. https://t.co/ibUDD8u13z”. Additional posts from the same day included links without further commentary: “https://t.co/yFKCpHdEPK” and “https://t.co/s59spYAxro”.
Murphysboro High School is part of Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186, which represents Jackson County and includes Carruthers Elementary School, General John A. Logan Attendance Centre, McElvain School, and Murphysboro Middle School as well (source). The district serves students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade across Harrison and Jackson counties, with a total enrollment of 1,947 students in the 2019-2020 school year (source).
According to the Illinois State Board of Education, the district has a teaching staff of 147 with an average salary of $53,770 before pension contributions; about three-quarters are women and one-quarter are men. No teachers have reported more than ten absences in a school year (source). The student body is composed of approximately 69 percent White, 15.9 percent Black, 7.1 percent Hispanic, and 0.1 percent Asian students (source). In terms of funding, the district spent $19,142 per student in 2020 for a total expenditure of $37,270,039 (source). The chronic truancy rate stands at 6.7 percent—below the statewide average—with 130 chronically truant students during the same period (source).
