EHS serves the communities and surrounding areas of Lanark, Lake Carroll, Georgetown, and Shannon.

[2][3] The campus is located 25 miles north of Sterling, Illinois, and serves a mixed small city, village, and rural residential community.

[4] Additionally, in 2019, Eastland ranked as the 4,300 best school in the United States, and 145 in Illinois based on U.S. News & World Report.

[10] The building in Shannon currently houses the district elementary school as well as sixth grade students.

After a considerable amount of time was spent trying to create the perfect link between the two schools it was decided that maintaining a color from each school would help keep some history alive for both communities, Orange from Shannon and Royal Blue from Lanark.