Griffin Crask-Weeks, a senior at Collinsville High School, completed his term as the 2025-26 student representative on the Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 Board of Education during this week’s board meeting on April 23.
The student board member attends regular monthly meetings to provide a student perspective and input to the board. Each year, a high school senior is selected for this role after applying at the end of their junior year. Crask-Weeks also conducted a year-long project that focused on studying student participation and interest in extracurricular activities across Dorris Intermediate School, Collinsville Middle School, and Collinsville High School. He surveyed students from these schools to gather opinions and suggestions, sharing his findings with the board in April. His research will be used by school leaders and administrators for future planning.
Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 serves Madison and St. Clair counties and includes several schools such as Caseyville Elementary, Jefferson Elementary, John A. Renfro Elementary, Kreitner Elementary, Maryville Elementary, Summit Elementary, Twin Echo Elementary, Webster Elementary in addition to Dorris Intermediate School, Collinsville Middle School and Collinsville High School according to Illinois Report Card. The district enrolled 6,169 students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade during the 2019-2020 school year according to Illinois Report Card.
The district’s demographic breakdown is reported as 56 percent White students, 14.1 percent Black students, 24.1 percent Hispanic students and 0.5 percent Asian students according to Illinois Report Card. In terms of staffing data provided by the state education agency for recent years: there are currently 418 teachers earning an average salary of $60,392 before pension contributions; women make up approximately four-fifths of teaching staff; no teacher has had more than ten absences within a single academic year according to Illinois Report Card.
Financially speaking for fiscal year 2020: spending per pupil was $16,872 with total expenditures reaching $104 million dollars as reported by Illinois Report Card. Chronic truancy rates were comparatively low—191 out of all enrolled were considered chronically truant (defined as missing five percent or more days without valid excuse), representing just over three percent compared with statewide averages near ten percent according to Illinois State Board of Education data.
Crask-Weeks plans to attend the University of Missouri next year where he will study engineering.
