Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 announced on May 29 that it will provide free healthy and nutritious summer lunches to children under the age of 18 during the Summer School calendar in June.
The district said free lunch will be available Monday through Thursday from June 1 to June 25 at two locations: Caseyville Elementary Cafeteria from 11:30 a.m. until noon, and Collinsville Middle School Cafeteria from 11:45 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. No lunch will be served on Thursday, June 18, due to the Juneteenth holiday. For more information, families can contact Sara Brinkman at sara.brinkman@sodexo.com or Pam Glastetter at pglastetter@cusd.kahoks.org.
The Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 serves Madison and St. Clair counties and includes schools such as Caseyville Elementary School, Collinsville High School, Collinsville Middle School, Dorris Intermediate School, Jefferson Elementary School, John A. Renfro Elementary School, Kreitner Elementary School, Maryville Elementary School, Summit Elementary School, Twin Echo Elementary School, and Webster Elementary School, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 enrolled 6,169 students in the 2019-2020 school year as a unit district serving grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in Collinsville and Madison County, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. The district has a student body that is approximately 56 percent White, 14.1 percent Black, 24.1 percent Hispanic, and .5 percent Asian.
In terms of staffing, the Illinois State Board of Education reports that there are currently 418 teachers earning an average salary of $60,392 before pension contributions; women make up about eighty-one percent of teachers while men comprise nineteen percent; no teacher had more than ten absences in one school year.
For expenditures, the district spent $16,872 per student in fiscal year 2020 with total spending reaching $104 million. The chronic truancy rate was reported at three point one percent with one hundred ninety-one chronically truant students out of all those enrolled; this is below the statewide average.
