Springfield Southeast High School (SSHS or Southeast High School to natives) is a public high school located in Springfield, Illinois. It is the youngest high school serving

Springfield Public Schools District 186 Springfield School District No. 186, known as Springfield Public Schools (SPS), is a unit school district in Sangamon County, Illinois. Its territory includes most of the city of Springfield, Illinois, its four inner suburbs of Grandview, Lel ...

, the oldest and second oldest being Springfield High School and

Lanphier High School Lanphier High School, in the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois, Springfield, is a public high school affiliated with Springfield Public School District 186. It is also the home of the John Marshall Club, a club with open membership dedicated ...

respectively. True to its name, this school feeds from the southeast area of Springfield. As of the 2014-2015 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,369 students and 90.05 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.20:1. The school is well known for its athletics, mainly basketball. They are the current City Champions in basketball. The school has had a choir member be selected for the Young Americans. A large fiberglass "Muffler Man" statue of a

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n warrior stands above the front entrance of the school. The statue originally stood at a home builders business and was meant to portray a

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but was later modified.

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{{authority control Educational institutions established in 1967 Public high schools in Illinois Schools in Springfield, Illinois