Prospect School hosts first Senior Sign Picture and Clap Out event for Class of 2026
Prospect School hosted its inaugural Senior Sign Picture and Clap Out event on May 21, bringing together the Class of 2026 for a celebration marking their upcoming high school graduation. The seniors, who were Principal Kristin Cummings' first fifth-grade graduating class at Prospect, returned to their elementary school dressed in college t-shirts and sweatshirts representing their future plans.
The event began with a group photo at the Prospect School sign before graduates received red and white balloons at the fifth-grade doorway. Families, former principal Anne Kryger, current students, staff, and former teachers gathered along the playground path to cheer as the seniors processed from the kindergarten doors around the playground. The celebration concluded on the blacktop with cookies and water as teachers congratulated graduates before they departed for their high school commencement ceremony later that evening.
Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 represents DuPage and Cook counties. It includes Clarendon Hills Middle School, Elm Elementary School, Hinsdale Middle School, Madison Elementary School, Monroe Elementary School, Oak Elementary School, Prospect Elementary School, The Lane Elementary School, and Walker School,according to Illinois Report Card. In the 2019-2020 school year it enrolled 3,743 students as an elementary district serving grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in Clarendon Hills and DuPage County.according to Illinois Report Card
According to data from the Illinois State Board of Education, Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 has a teaching staff of 282 with an average salary of $94,227 before pension contributions; ninety percent are women while ten percent are men. No teachers had more than ten absences in a year during this period.
Demographically,the district is comprised of approximately 69.8 percent White students; Asian students make up about fifteen percent; Hispanic students nearly seven percent; Black students just over one percent. During the same period,district spending per student was $31,308 totaling $117 million overall.
Chronic truancy rates remain low in Hinsdale Community Consolidated District 181: only four chronically truant students were reported in one recent year—about one-tenth of one percent—compared to a statewide average chronic truancy rate near ten percent.according to Illinois Report Card