Editing Cairo, Illinois (section)

==Education==
The city is served by [[Cairo Community Unit School District 1]]. Based on census estimates, the Cairo school district has the highest percentage in Illinois of children in poverty, 60.6%. This is the fifteenth highest percentage of any city in the United States.<ref>[http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/734613,CST-NWS-poorskul10.article "If you're poor, you have to work harder... nothing is fair"], ''Chicago Sun-Times'', January 10, 2008  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115110604/http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/734613%2CCST-NWS-poorskul10.article |date=January 15, 2010}}</ref> The district has one elementary school, Emerson Elementary School. Middle and high school students attend Cairo Junior/Senior High School. Bennett Elementary School closed in 2010.<ref>[http://www.kfvs12.com/story/12087067/bennett-elementary-to-close-in-cairo "Bennett Elementary to Close in Cairo"], KFVS 12, March 4, 2010 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510045639/http://www.kfvs12.com/story/12087067/bennett-elementary-to-close-in-cairo |date=May 10, 2016}}</ref>

The [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville]] formerly operated St. Joseph Grade School.<ref name=CathSchProfile>{{cite web |url=http://www.diobelle.org/schools/index.html |title=Schools |publisher=[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville]] |date=2001-08-18 |accessdate=2022-02-23 |quote=Cairo St. Joseph Grade School 421 Cross Street Cairo, IL 62914 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010818132946/http://www.diobelle.org/schools/index.html |archive-date=18 August 2001 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was previously [[K–12]],<ref name=Quirin>{{cite news|last=Quirin|first=Liz|title=End of an Era as Catholic School Closed at St. Joseph's in Cairo|newspaper=[[The Messenger (Belleville, Illinois)|The Messenger]]|place=[[Belleville, Illinois]]|date=2003-08-01|pages=9, 17}} – [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96309786/ Clipping of first] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96309809/ of second page] at [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> but by 2001 it had only elementary grades.<ref name=CathSchProfile/> Enrollment was over 130 during the 1976–1977 school year. This figure dropped to 63 in 2000, and then 25, including seven Catholic students, in the 2002–2003 school year. The school closed in 2003.<ref name=Quirin/>

[[Shawnee Community College]] opened an extension center in Cairo in January 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=Molly |title=Shawnee Community College plants roots in Cairo with opening of new extension center |url=https://thesouthern.com/news/local/education/shawnee-community-college-plants-roots-in-cairo-with-opening-of-new-extension-center/article_dc7071fa-f7f8-5003-adea-5914a5e2c45c.html |access-date=5 July 2020 |work=The Southern Illinoisan |date=8 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref>