Bushnell-Prairie City High School (BPCHS) is a public four-year high school located at 845 North Walnut Street in Bushnell, Illinois, a small city in McDonough County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States.
[2][3] The campus is located 14 miles northeast of Macomb, IL, and serves a mixed small city, village, and rural residential community.
[3][7][8] Sports offered at BPCHS include:[9] Clubs and other activities offered at BPCHS include:[9] Bushnell-Prairie City High School was formed in 1952 from the consolidation of Bushnell's and Prairie City's high schools.
A learning "Academy" was established in 1857 for the Prairie City kids by a local church and was supported by the town's people.
It was at some point in the early 1950s that the communities of Bushnell and Prairie City decided to pool their educational resources.
Prairie City High School's mascot was the Cobras, and its colors were blue and white.
In the summer of 2009 a feasibility study was commissioned to investigate the possibilities of consolidation with neighboring Avon and Abingdon school districts.