Illinois Elementary School Association

Elementary and middle school association

40°28′02″N 88°57′03″W / 40.467311°N 88.950838°W / 40.467311; -88.950838

Region served

Illinois

Executive Director

Steve EndsleyAffiliationsAffiliate member of National Federation of State High School AssociationsWebsitehttp://www.iesa.org/

Illinois Elementary School Association is a statewide athletics and activities association serving elementary and middle schools in the U.S. state of Illinois. At the end of the 1920s, a handful of principals and coaches at several central Illinois grade schools looked at ways to create a means of broadening and unifying their schools' activities programs. At that time, Illinois high schools were represented by the Illinois High School Association, but a comparable association for grade schools did not exist. The association was officially started in April 1928 as the Illinois State Graded School Athletic Association.^[1]