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Georgetown-Ridge Farm Unit #4 

400 West West Street

Georgetown, Illinois 61846

217-662-8488

Fax: 217-662-3402

  
 

Welcome to Georgetown-Ridge Farm!

Georgetown-Ridge Farm Unit #4  is located in east-central Illinois. The district  is comprised of 4 campuses: Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School (500 West Mulberry), which includes grades 9-12; Mary Miller Junior High School (414 West West Street), which includes grades 6-8; Ridge Farm Elementary School (305 South State Street, Ridge Farm), which includes grades 4 & 5; and Pine Crest Elementary School (505 Kennedy Drive) which serves Kindergarten - 3rd grade and includes the Head Start program

Community members from both Georgetown and Ridge Farm play an active role in meeting the needs of our district.

We are proud of the administration, faculty, staff, students, parents, and community members who make up our school community. Welcome to our home page. We welcome your presence as you browse our web site for more information about our schools.

 

 

Mr. Greg Irwin, Superintendent

Email: girwin@grf.k12.il.us

During the summer of 2009, Mr. Gregory Irwin took over as the new Georgetown-Ridge Farm  CU #4 Superintendent of Schools.  By returning to Georgetown-Ridge Farm CU #4 District, Mr. Irwin brings his educational career full-circle to where he started his first full-time teaching assignment in 1983.  Mr. Irwin has taught at both the Junior High School and High School levels, specializing in the subject areas of Industrial Arts Education, Physical Education, and Junior High Science.  He has coached several sports including gymnastics, football, wrestling, track, and baseball.  He has served as an Industrial Arts teacher/coach at Westville High School beginning in 1990 and served as Westville Junior High Principal from the fall of 1995 thru the spring of 2002.  Mr. Irwin was named and remained Superintendent of Schools in the Mulberry Grove CUSD #1 District, located in Mulberry Grove, Illinois from the fall of 2002 thru the spring of 2009.

 ‘This truly is like coming home for me“, says Irwin. “ I enjoyed my time as a teacher and coach in the Georgetown-Ridge Farm District and am happy to return once again.  It’s been a pleasure to get reacquainted with many old friends and colleagues, and meeting many new faces too.”   Mr. Irwin looks forward to working with the faculty, staff, and Board of Education.  He hopes to bring our educational community together in order to build the best educational and extracurricular programs we are able to the Georgetown-Ridge Farm District.

 

 

Mr. Andy Weathers,

Assistant Superintendent

 

Mission Statement

In the society of today and tomorrow, changes in technology have brought about an explosion of knowledge unprecedented in any other time of history.  The school's role in this world is becoming one of teaching the individual to make use of this knowledge and create new knowledge, new technology, new markets, and new ideas.

We have become a learning society, constantly gathering information, analyzing it, refining it, and creating new information to begin the cycle over again.  This district's mission of educating its youth must now provide, within its existing resources, a base for successfully participating in this new society and to direct focus on the means with which those young people will achieve a degree of success.  That must must include:

  • The ability to command a living wage.

  • The ability to participate in community, local, state, national, or world governing.

  • The ability to fulfill the fullest potential attainable by the individual.

  • And the respect for the worth and dignity of all individuals.

To help students meet the demands and challenges society makes of the individual, the high school should be committed to providing useful educational experiences for all students.  This can be accomplished through community support, a competent staff, and a well-defined curriculum within a flexible framework that provides materials and experiences that are appropriate to the individual learner.  To support the worth and dignity of the individual, the high school should provide a supportive environment through guidance, counseling, encouragement, and positive interaction with the staff.