East Moline School District 30 United Township High School

Communities Served: Serving the communities of East Moline, Silvis, Carbon Cliff, Colona, Hampton, Barstow, portions of Moline, Port Byron, Rapids City and rural Rock Island County

Student Enrollment: Approximately 1750 high school students enrolled at two campuses (United Township High School and United Township Education Center).

Area Career Center: United Township hosts the Area Career Center, which hosts students from 8 different school districts taking coursework in one of the 15-plus different programs ranging from health occupations, to law enforcement and public safety to automotive repair.

Student Diversity: There are over 15 different languages spoken at UTHS.

• 54.7% White
• 12.5% Black of African-American
• 25.9% Hispanic
• 4.3% Multi-racial
• 2.2% Asian
• 0.3% Native American
• 0.1% Pacific Islander

Academic Rigor

• Multiple advanced placement (AP) and dual credit college courses are offered. Students have an opportunity to earn over 20 hours of college credit by graduation, all taken at UT at a greatly reduced cost.

Family Supports

• Each freshman class has a day devoted only to freshman at the beginning of each school year. Freshmen only attend and participate in team building activities and become acclimated to daily schedule and high school life.
• The Class of 2017 earned over hundreds of thousands in scholarships, awards, and grants.

Home to the Area Career Center (ACC), which hosts 17 different pre-professional programs from Health Occupations, Law Enforcement and Public Safety, to Automotive Mechanics and Cosmetology. For example, the ACC typically graduates 50-60 students with their Certified Nursing Assistant degree each year.

Extensive dual-credit program with Black Hawk College. Students have an opportunity to earn up to 21 credit hours toward their associate degree for a very minimal cost, all taken at UTHS. Additional dual-credit opportunities are available toward select associate degrees in Nursing and Welding.

Widely recognized advanced Critical Thinking program, which is a series of three team-taught, multi-period, interdisciplinary courses designed for academically talented 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students. The blended English and Social Studies curriculum focuses on intense college preparation.

Only high school in the Illinois Quad-Cities to be recognized in 2017 by U.S. News and World Report as a Bronze Medal High School.

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First high school locally to graduate students who have achieved the Seal of Biliteracy. This award is given by a school, district, or state in recognition of graduating high school students who have demonstrated a high level of academic proficiency and performance on Advanced Placement exams in both English and another language.

Including 19 interscholastic sports, multiple instrumental and vocal musical opportunities, and a wide gamut of interscholastic and academic clubs and activities.

Fully accredited and licensed faculty and staff committed to helping each student reach their fullest potential in a setting with lower-than-average student - teacher ratio.