DeLand-Weldon Community Unit School District 57 is based in Piatt County, Illinois and serves the towns of De Land and Weldon.
It was then that the townspeople of Weldon and nearby De Land began consolidation talks of their school districts.
#57 website at On December 7, 1957, the citizens of Unit #57 voted to build and equip a new high school on the county line midway between the two communities.
The new building was erected at a cost of approximately $550,000, and provides for a four-year school, with provisions in the future to add four rooms to accommodate the seventh and eighth grades of both communities.
Therefore, during the ten-year interim, the schools of DeLand-Weldon Unit #57 moved toward the original long range goal set in 1948.
[4] DeLand-Weldon High School is a coed public secondary institution located in Piatt County, Illinois.