DuPage High School District 88 shares updates in latest newsletter
DuPage High School District 88 released its latest newsletter on July 27, providing updates and information for the community. The district, located in Addison and DuPage County, serves students in grades nine through twelve at Addison Trail High School and Willowbrook High School.
DuPage High School District 88 enrolled 3,921 students in the 2019-2020 school year and spent $30,263 per student in 2020, totaling $118,661,497, according to the Illinois schools report card. The district is composed of 37 percent White, 5.8 percent Black, 46.9 percent Hispanic, and 7.2 percent Asian students, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
The district employs 247 teachers with an average salary of $101,354 before taxpayer-funded pension contributions. Of these teachers, 53.6 percent are women and 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 'chronically truant' students as those who miss 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, with some districts reporting higher rates, 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. Additionally, 58 percent of teachers in Illinois have a master's degree or higher, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Teacher shortages remain a concern across Illinois, with 4,096 teaching positions unfilled for the 2023-2024 school year at a vacancy rate of 3.0 percent. Alternative measures such as substitutes, retired educators, combining classrooms, and increasing class sizes have been used to fill 3,694 positions. Ninety-one percent of school leaders indicated a problem with teacher shortages, and 62 percent of education agencies reported shortages, according to the Educator Shortage Report.