DeLand-Weldon High School is a coed public secondary institution located in Piatt County, Illinois. It is a part of DeLand-Weldon Community Unit School District #57. The school draws from an area of De Land and Weldon and is the fifth smallest public high school in the state of Illinois, with a total enrollment of 45 students (2024âÂÂ2025).
The community of De Land opened its original high school in 1880. That building was lost to a fire in 1904 and promptly replaced, with the second structure serving until 1921 when a larger school was constructed. Weldon operated its own high school beginning in 1925 under the Nixon Township system. Both institutions provided core academics and athletics but were constrained by low enrollment and limited resources typical of small rural districts.
Residents of both towns voted to unify their school districts in 1947, creating what would become Unit #57. Weldon High School ceased independent operations by 1949, and students from both communities attended classes in the existing De Land facility while the new district planned for a permanent shared campus.
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.
The DeLand-Weldon athletic teams participate in the East Central Illinois Conference, a high school athletic conference whose member schools have similar enrollments and are all located in the Central Illinois region. The school's teams also compete in state championship tournaments sponsored by the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The statewide class designation is A.
The school mascot is the Eagle.