Gower School District 62 reported a per-student expenditure of $19,070 in fiscal year 2024, positioning it 255th among Illinois districts.
School districts in DuPage County carried over $1.3 billion in long-term debt in fiscal year 2024, with some using more than 20.2% of their legal borrowing capacity.
Gower School District 62's outstanding school debt reached $14.4 million as of fiscal year 2024, according to the Illinois State Board of Education, or about $1,544,670 per student.
There were five incidents of students being suspended in Gower School District 62 during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois Report Card.
In the 2023-24 school year, 26.6% of Gower School District 62 students failed the ELA portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 43.7% of Gower School District 62 students failed the math portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Administrators in Gower School District 62 earn an average of $162,381 per year, ranking 21st highest in the state, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 56.3% of the students in Gower School District 62 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 73.4% of the students in Gower School District 62 passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Enrollment at Gower School District 62 rose from the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
For the 2023-24 school year, Indian Prairie School District 204 experienced the largest enrollment among DuPage County school districts.
On January 28, 2025, we at the DuPage Policy Journal sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Gower School District 62.
On January 13, 2025, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was sent to Gower School District 62 by the DuPage Policy Journal.
Enrollment at Gower School District 62 were unchanged from the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
In the 2022-23 school year, 55.4% of the students in Gower School District 62 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.