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Congratulations to the District 205 faculty, staff, PTA members and volunteers who will be recognized at the 2019 Those Who Excel banquet on October 19 in Normal, IL.
District News
York High School student athletes helped cut the ribbon on a new campus fitness center Monday evening. The state-of-the-art workout gym grew from vision to reality thanks to a generous $100,000 donation from the York Athletic Boosters. The York Athletic Department partnered with the Elmhurst District 205 School Board to allocate the remaining $20,000 needed for the renovation project.
- York
Pearson Clinical Assessment, a former vendor of Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205, recently notified D205 that a limited data breach involving their AIMSWeb 1.0 product by an unauthorized third party occurred. From 2012 to 2017 Pearson Clinical Assessment provided AIMSWeb 1.0 assessment services to Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205. Elmhurst D205 has not worked with Pearson since 2017 and has not provided any data to Pearson since that time.
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The first day of school is right around the corner, and our #D205FirstDay contest is BACK for a second year! Open this story to find out how you could win a $20 gift card.
After four years of intense community engagement, which resulted in clearly identifying learning and teaching priorities, such as All-Day Kindergarten, increased STEM opportunities for students, two-way immersion Dual Language programming in Spanish, intervention and enrichment opportunities for students, and the addition of instructional coaches; and the development of a Master Facilities Plan that resulted in the successful passage of a $168.5M referendum in November of 2018; the administration developed an Operational Plan that will guide decision making, professional learning, and resource allocation for the next three years.
- Superintendent
Beginning July 29, 2019, Elmhurst District 205 began to use a new online payment system called PushCoin. Parents and guardians of D205 students will be able to fund their students’ lunch accounts. Parents and guardians of York students will be able to pay their high school fees through PushCoin, in addition to funding their students' lunch accounts.
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- Churchville
- Edison
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- Fischer
- Hawthorne
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- York
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Emma Radcliff (Class of 2019) has been writing as long as she can remember. This month, her novel, The Hidden King, debuts.
- York
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Elmhurst District 205’s Innovation Team was pleased to present at the 2019 Act for Impact Model Schools National Conference in Washington D.C. on June 23-26. D205 joined more than 5,000 educators and 25 model schools and innovative districts for more than 100 sessions with the common goal of transforming learning.
Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 Communications Department, along with its partner Strategies 360, proudly announces that it is the recent recipient of three 2019 National School Public Relations Awards, including a Golden Achievement Award for the 2018 Future Focused Referendum Campaign!