Students from Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 achieved strong results at a recent cup stacking competition in Buffalo Grove, with participants from The Lane and one student from Madison taking part, according to an April 18 announcement. All relay teams representing the district advanced to the finals.
Nearly all doubles teams, relay teams, and individual competitors from D181 reached the finals and earned podium finishes. Almost every student placed in the top ten in at least one event, which led to invitations for these students to compete at the AAU Junior Olympics in Iowa this July.
The district serves schools across DuPage and Cook counties, including Clarendon Hills Middle School, Elm Elementary School, Hinsdale Middle School, Madison Elementary School, Monroe Elementary School, Oak Elementary School, Prospect Elementary School, The Lane Elementary School, and Walker School according to the Illinois Report Card. In the 2019-2020 school year it enrolled 3,743 students as an elementary school district serving grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade according to the Illinois Report Card.
District data shows that there are 282 teachers with an average salary of $94,227 before pension contributions; ninety percent are women and ten percent are men. No teacher had more than ten absences during a school year according to state records. The student body is composed of approximately seventy percent White students while about fifteen percent are Asian; smaller percentages identify as Hispanic or Black as reported by ISBE.
In terms of finances and attendance rates: spending per student was $31,308 in 2020 for a total expenditure of $117 million according to state data. Chronic truancy was low compared with statewide figures: only four chronically truant students were recorded—representing just point one percent—while some districts report much higher rates as noted by ISBE.
“Congratulations to all of our Cup Stacking champs and Coach Jessica Czerniuk!”
