The South Seven will be without one of its charter members on August 1, 2026. Thursday night, Centralia High School’s school board made a unanimous 7-0 decision to leave the South Seven and accept the invitation to join the Cahokia Conference.
The Orphans will join the Mississippi Division for football, which will be made up of Breese Central, Civic Memorial, Columbia, Freeburg, Jerseyville, and East Alton-Wood River alongside Centralia.
The 2025-26 school year will be Centralia’s 86th and final year in the South Seve, a conference they helped to form in 1939. They leave Carbondale, Marion, Mt. Vernon, and Cahokia – as well as Highland who will join the conference in 2026-27.
