Peoria, IL place to live

[peoriashows]

Originally Posted by katiem8

I grew up in Morton, went to Bradley, and have taught in district 150 for 2 years. Do not send your kids to Peoria schools. Richwoods is nicer than the other high schools but I wouldn't call it affluent. They reorganized the most ghetto (fence around the school had barbed wire around the top like a prison) high school and are closing another ghetto, very gang ridden high school in May so all those kids get to go to the other high schools so ANY public school has kids from the ghetto and gangs now. Some of the private schools are pretty good though. or Morton or Dunlap for sure. Morton is an easy commute to most places in Peoria b/c of the intersate (like 20 min tops). Dunlap can suck driving all the way through Peoria at rush hour. Morton actually has two private grade schools (k-8) that are great. (Catholic & Lutheran if you are ok with that) Morton is a town that kids can play in the neighborhood any time of the day or night and be fine. If i were to have children and live in this area my kids would go to Morton schools or private schools. Best of luck.

Wow! You didn't have to mention you were from Morton, your comments pretty much spoke for themselves. If you think Central & Woodruff are in the ghetto, you must not get out of the house very much. If you ever spent some time around the old south Chicago projects or drove through Detroit, you wouldn't throw that word around so easily. Peoria's worst streets are like Disneyland compared to the REAL ghettos in those cities.

[runninfiend]

Originally Posted by peoriashows

Wow! You didn't have to mention you were from Morton, your comments pretty much spoke for themselves. If you think Central & Woodruff are in the ghetto, you must not get out of the house very much. If you ever spent some time around the old south Chicago projects or drove through Detroit, you wouldn't throw that word around so easily. Peoria's worst streets are like Disneyland compared to the REAL ghettos in those cities.

Haha, I agree. Woodruff and Central are both pretty diverse and not "ghetto," although that term to your average Mortonite probably means any neighborhood or town where everybody on the street isn't lilywhite. You are correct, even the middle of the south side of Peoria is nowhere near as bad as even moderately bad neighborhoods on the south or west side of Chicago.

And that person claims to teach in 150. Scary.

[mdand3boys]

Uh... the OP has made ONE post and that was in 2008. Not worth discussing now, right?

[linicx]

Maybe it is worth a discussion for the next poster moving into the area.

Richwoods is very decent high school. My son graduated from Richwoods and died ten years lager. it that 10 years, he owned three businesses in Peoria, a home, ect.. My parents graduated from Peoria schools, too. I think painting Peoria or Peoria schools with a broad brush is a bit much.

I don't find a lot wrong with schools in Peoria Heights, Washington, Robein, Metamora, Dunlap, Bartonville, Morton or Lewistown or Havana for that matter either. I would not put any child in Pekin again, or Canton. I think East Peoria moves kids into new schools too often. .