Beulah Park’s Youth Leadership Team organized a toy trade on April 28, allowing students to exchange gently used toys and games. The event aimed to encourage sustainability, generosity, and a sense of community among the participants.
The toy trade provided an opportunity for students to share items they no longer needed while also finding new ones. This approach was designed to foster positive social values within the school environment.
Zion Elementary School District 6 includes Beulah Park Elementary School as well as East Elementary School, Elmwood Elementary School, Lakeview School, Shiloh Park Elementary School, West Elementary School, and Zion Central Middle School according to the Illinois Report Card. The district serves grades pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Zion and Lake County and enrolled 2,483 students during the 2019-2020 school year according to the Illinois Report Card.
Data from the Illinois State Board of Education shows that Zion Elementary School District 6 has a teaching staff of 164 with an average salary of $58,629 before pension contributions; women make up over eighty-three percent of teachers while men comprise about seventeen percent. There are no teachers in this district with more than ten absences in a school year according to state data.
The student body is made up of approximately five percent White students, thirty-seven percent Black students, fifty-one percent Hispanic students, and less than one percent Asian students as reported by ISBE. In terms of financials, spending per student reached $27,927 in 2020 for a total expenditure exceeding sixty-nine million dollars according to official figures.
Chronic truancy remains below statewide averages in Zion District 6: there were one hundred seventy-nine chronically truant students enrolled during the 2020 school year—a rate of seven point two percent—compared with nine point six percent across Illinois districts; chronic truancy is defined as missing at least five percent of mandated school days without valid excuse per ISBE definitions.
