On November 10, kindergarten students in Melissa Loconte’s class at Stevenson School participated in a hands-on “Create a Creature” lab led by the DuPage Children’s Museum.
In the fall of 2025, the District 45 Board of Education began looking for ways to address a budget deficit and a decreasing financial reserve.
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.
There were 261 incidents of students being suspended just in Villa Park School District 45 during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois Report Card.
Villa Park School District 45's outstanding school debt reached $50.8 million as of fiscal year 2024, according to the Illinois State Board of Education, or about $1,619,620 per student.
Administrators in Villa Park School District 45 earn an average of $135,148 per year, ranking 133rd highest in the state, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 29.2% of the students in Villa Park School District 45 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 36.2% of the students in Villa Park School District 45 passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 63.9% of Villa Park School District 45 students failed the ELA portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 70.7% of Villa Park School District 45 students failed the math portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Enrollment at Villa Park School District 45 fell 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.
In the 2022-23 school year, 29% of the students in Villa Park School District 45 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2022-23 school year, 30.9% of the students in Villa Park School District 45 passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
On January 13, 2025, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was sent to Villa Park School District 45 by the DuPage Policy Journal.