Editing Highland, Illinois (section)

==Education==
The Highland Community Unit School District serves Highland area students including those from [[Alhambra, Illinois]], [[Grantfork, Illinois]], and [[New Douglas, Illinois]]. Kindergarten through sixth grade schools are located in each of the districts municipalities while the district's middle and high schools are located in Highland.  Starting in August 2014 6th grade is located at the Highland Middle School.  In September 2014, the district's teachers staged a [[strike action|strike]] for the first time in the district's history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wandtv.com/story/26493724/southwestern-illinois-teachers-vote-to-strike |title=Southwestern Illinois teachers vote to strike |last1=Associated Press |author-link=Associated Press |date=10 September 2014 |publisher=[[WAND (TV)|WAND]] |access-date=13 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914023637/http://www.wandtv.com/story/26493724/southwestern-illinois-teachers-vote-to-strike |archive-date=14 September 2014 }}</ref>

[[File:St. Paul's Church, Highland, Illinois (85834).jpg|thumb|St. Paul's Church on a postcard]]

Additionally, Highland has a local parochial school named [[St. Paul Catholic Church (Highland, Illinois)|St. Paul Catholic School]] offering Kindergarten through eighth grade education.

The Louis Latzer Memorial Public Library has a collection of more than 48,000 print volumes, a substantial media collection, and public computer access along with access to subscription databases and a genealogy collection. It is also a member of the Illinois Heartland Library System.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://highlandillibrary.org/Highland_IL_Library/About.html|title=Library Information|publisher=Louis Latzer Memorial Public Library|access-date=22 February 2017}}</ref>