District 181 Board seeks applicants for Academic Success Committee membership
The District 181 Board of Education announced on April 22 that it is seeking one parent or community representative to join its Academic Success Committee for a one-year term. Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time on Wednesday, April 29, and late applications will not be accepted.
This opportunity allows parents and community members to participate in shaping the academic direction of Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181. All applicants will be notified about committee membership status no later than May 8, with the next meeting scheduled for June.
Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 serves DuPage and Cook counties and includes schools such as Clarendon Hills Middle School, Elm Elementary School, Hinsdale Middle School, Madison Elementary School, Monroe Elementary School, Oak Elementary School, Prospect Elementary School, The Lane Elementary School, and Walker School according to the Illinois Report Card. The district enrolled 3,743 students during the 2019-2020 school year and provides education from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade according to the Illinois Report Card.
According to data from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), District 181 has a teaching staff of 282 teachers who earn an average salary of $94,227 before pension contributions; women make up ninety percent of this group while men account for ten percent. No teacher in the district had more than ten absences in a school year according to ISBE.
The student population is comprised of approximately sixty-nine point eight percent White students, one point one percent Black students, six point eight percent Hispanic students, and fifteen point four percent Asian students according to ISBE. In terms of spending per student in fiscal year twenty-twenty, District 181 allocated $31,308 per student with total expenditures reaching $117 million as reported by ISBE.
Chronic truancy remains low within the district; only four students were identified as chronically truant during the two thousand twenty school year—a rate of zero point one percent—compared with a statewide average chronic truancy rate of nine point six percent as noted by ISBE.