Prospect School's Ukulele Club offers music opportunity for 4th and 5th graders

Prospect School is offering a Ukulele Club for its 4th and 5th-grade students, led by music teacher Erin Kozakis, according to a Mar. 25 announcement. The club meets weekly during lunch recess and provides students with an opportunity to learn musical notes and chords.

The club aims to make music education accessible within the school day while encouraging student engagement. Participants will have the chance to perform at the school's Fine Arts Day in May, showcasing their progress before the Prospect School community.

Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181, which includes Prospect Elementary among other schools, serves DuPage and Cook counties according to Illinois Report Card. The district enrolled 3,743 students in the 2019-2020 school year as an elementary district serving grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade according to Illinois Report Card.

The district employs a total of 282 teachers who earn an average salary of $94,227 before pension contributions; women make up ninety percent of this group while men comprise ten percent. There are no teachers in Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 with more than ten absences per year according to Illinois Report Card.

Student demographics show that Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 is nearly seventy percent White, over fifteen percent Asian, almost seven percent Hispanic, and just above one percent Black according to Illinois Report Card. The district spent $31,308 per student in the year 2020 for a total expenditure of $117 million according to Illinois Report Card.

Chronic truancy rates remain low in this district; only four students were classified as chronically truant during the most recent reporting period—a rate of just one-tenth of one percent—compared with a statewide average of nearly ten percent according to Illinois Report Card.