Danville High School (Illinois)
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Danville High School is a public high school located in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. Its enrollment was 1,570 students during the 2005-2006 academic year, placing it among the 200 largest high schools in Illinois. DHS is part of Danville District 118, which also includes two middle schools and eight elementary schools. The DHS mascot is the Viking.
Famous DHS students include entertainers such Emmy-winning brothers Dick Van Dyke and Jerry Van Dyke, and Oscar winners Donald O'Connor and Gene Hackman. Other notable people include mystery writer Susan Wittig Albert, astronaut Joe Tanner, professional baseball player Jason Anderson, and professional basketball player Keon Clark.
John Scopes, defendant of the Scopes Monkey Trial, was both a student and a teacher at DHS. After college, Scopes taught at Danville for one year before moving to Dayton, Tennessee, where he was famously convicted for teaching evolution.
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