DuPage High School District 88 releases latest newsletter to community members
DuPage High School District 88 distributed its latest newsletter to subscribers on June 24, inviting recipients to view the message in rich HTML mode and providing an option to unsubscribe.
The newsletter, sent from [email protected] to community members, did not include additional content in the plain text version. The message stated, "To view this message, please switch to rich HTML mode. Other options: Unsubscribe: https://newman.dupage88.net/Newman/public/cancel.xhtml?uuid=vJ4urFhz95Tq2yDWaSdWC8mNz&seedts=p120o&rpt=E3."
DuPage High School District 88 serves students in Addison and DuPage County, representing Addison Trail High School and Willowbrook High School. The district enrolled 3,921 students in the 2019-2020 school year and serves grades nine through twelve, according to the Illinois schools report card.
The district's student body is 37 percent White, 5.8 percent Black, 46.9 percent Hispanic, and 7.2 percent Asian. District 88 spent $30,263 per student in 2020, totaling $118,661,497. The district employs 247 teachers with an average salary of $101,354, and 53.6 percent of teachers are women while 46.4 percent are men. There are no teachers in the district with more than 10 absences in a school year, according to the Illinois schools report card.
In 2020, the district reported 670 chronically truant students, representing a chronic truancy rate of 17.1 percent. The Illinois State Board of Education defines a chronically truant student as one who misses five percent or more of the state's mandated 180 school days without a valid excuse. The statewide average for chronic truancy is 9.6 percent, according to the Illinois schools report card.
Statewide, the average teacher salary in 2023 was $73,916, and the average administrative salary was $116,908. The average student-to-administrative ratio is 141:1, and the average student-to-teacher ratio is 17:1. Fifty-eight percent of teachers in Illinois have a master's degree or higher, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.