Payson Community Unit School District 1 is a unified school district composed of Seymour Elementary School and Payson Seymour High School, and is centrally based in Payson, Illinois, a village in Adams County; it serves Payson and the surrounding municipalities. The current superintendent is Rodger Hannel, while the principal of the Seymour High is Kirk Mosley and the principal of Seymour Elementary is Jeff Zanger.