Carbondale Reporter

Murphysboro High School reported on its official X account a recent girls basketball game result and shared additional posts over November 17-18, 2025.

On November 18, 2025, Murphysboro High School posted: "Murphysboro GBK Team falls to The Lady Indians of Johnston City https://t.co/Sr6AeLoOGw". This update followed two other posts without text, published at 22:40 UTC on November 17 and 08:24 UTC on November 18.

Murphysboro High School is part of the 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. According to the Illinois State Board of Education, the district employs 147 teachers with an average salary of $53,770. Approximately three-quarters of the teaching staff are women. No teachers in the district have more than ten absences in a school year. The student body is predominantly White (69 percent), with Black students representing nearly 16 percent and Hispanic students just over seven percent. In 2020, per-student spending was $19,142 for a total expenditure of $37.27 million ([source](https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/)).