On January 13, 2025, we at the DuPage Policy Journal submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Maercker School District 60 in Illinois.
In the 2022-23 school year, 45.4% of the students in Maercker School District 60 passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Enrollment at Maercker School District 60 rose from the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
In the 2022-23 school year, 49.8% of the students in Maercker School District 60 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
DuPage County districts had 6,338 multiracial students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2022-23 school year, 49.1% of students enrolled in DuPage County school districts identified as white.
DuPage County districts had 33,818 Hispanic students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2022-23 school year, 6.3% of students enrolled in DuPage County school districts identified as Black.
DuPage County districts had 22,776 Asian students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Indian Prairie School District 204 stood out in DuPage County with 25,536 students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Administrators in Maercker School District 60 earn an average of $132,846 per year, ranking 132nd highest in the state, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
The most prevalent ethnicity in DuPage County student body in the 2022-23 school year was white, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Nearly 4 in 10 DuPage County public students aren't at grade level based on their performance in the English portion of the 2023 SAT.
Of the 57,843 students who took the IAR in the 2022-23 school year, 50.5% failed the ELA portion of the test.
Of the 57,762 students who took the IAR in the 2022-23 school year, 57.1% failed the mathematics portion of the test.