The Midstate Conference will be dissolved after the 2005-2006 school year. Thirteen area schools
will form a new conference that will consist of schools from the Midstate Conference and the
Sangamon Valley Conference. The new unnamed conference will begin operations in the 2006-2007
school year.
School consolidations played a part in the decision to form a new conference. Gridley has merged
with El Paso and Chenoa will become part of the Prairie Central school system. All remaining Midstate
Conference schools except for Woodland and Tri-Point will be part of the new conference. Woodland
will join the Tri-County conference after the 2004-2005 school year.
The original members of the Midstate Conference when it was formed in 1949 were Chenoa, Cornell, El Paso,
Fairbury, Flanagan, Gridley, Lexington, and Minonk-Dana.
New conference schools
From Midstate
Deer Creek-Mackinaw
El-Paso-Gridley
Fieldcres
Flanagan
Heyworth
Lexington
Ridgeview
Tremont
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From Sangamon Valley
Blue Ridge
Fisher
GCMS
LeRoy
Tr-Valley
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