The Mattoon School District Communications Department is dedicated to engaging faculty, families, students, and the community, while providing full transparency with information pertaining to the school district and serving as a liaison to the media. The goals of the department are:

• Inform, educate, and empower the public with all of the great things happening within our district.

• Synergize the content creation process across our six buildings toward a shared image and common goals.

• Implement hands-on learning experiences in communications and design for our district students.

• Oversee a student-inclusive communications department that equips the community with positive reflections of the activities happening within our schools.

• Collaborate with partners and local businesses to provide the best local growth and experiences possible.

• Design and implement creative content and marketing strategies to create a measurable impact.

• Utilize a variety of platforms to share our regular updates across each of our organizations.

Mattoon Community Unit School District #2 was founded in 1948 after separating from all or parts of 63 surrounding school districts. Today, our school district is made up of six attendance centers – all with diverse programs, student bodies, and voices among its approximate 160 square mile coverage area. With our growing numbers and variety of organizations, we still unite as one. One school district. One community. One objective. To empower our youth to be future, independent leaders. As such, to help us communicate our goals and achievements as one, unified voice and in ways that are easily recognized and understood by our students, families, community, stakeholders, and media we have recently updated our visual identity. Resulting from this work, district employees, parent organizations, booster clubs and media outlets, and local organizations can use this style guide for electronic, print and media communications to ensure a consistency of logos, colors and fonts that support an authentic representation of our district.

PMS (Pantone Matching System)

• Green – 3425 C

• Gold – 466 C

Sherwin Williams Color Names

• Green - SW6454 Shamrock

• Empire Gold - SW0012 Empire Gold

District Font: Standard “Block” font

The district utilizes Sans Serif font families. Sans Serif is a style of font that does not have serifs or feet. For headings and titles, use bold type. For body font, use regular font type.

The Greenwave brand also utilizes Sans Serif font families. Consider the use of italics.

The proper display of Mattoon Greenwave should display 'Greenwave' as one word. Our official hashtag is #HailGreenwave.

There are two stories behind our nickname:

The first being that the nickname comes from the surrounding corn fields blowing in the wind.  Our school colors are also based on the same farming tradition within our community with the green and "vegas" or "old" gold coming from the stalk and tassel from the corn fields."

The second story for why we are the "Greenwave" is because supposedly the Tulane Green Wave (New Orleans) stopped here in Mattoon at the train station on their way to play a football game in Chicago back in the mid 1930s.  As the story goes, our football team met them and in honor of that event the school named ourselves after them.  

Prior to the mid 1930s we are known as "Mattoon" or the "Green and Gold".