The District 181 Board of Education announced on Apr. 22 that it is seeking one parent or community representative to serve a one-year term on its Finance Committee. Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time on Wednesday, April 29, and late applications will not be accepted.
The opportunity allows a member of the community to participate in financial decision-making within Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181, which serves parts of DuPage and Cook counties. The district includes 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.
All applicants will be contacted by May 8 regarding committee membership decisions. The next meeting of the Finance Committee is scheduled for June.
Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 enrolled 3,743 students in the 2019-2020 school year and serves grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in Clarendon Hills and DuPage County according to state data. In terms of demographics, the district is comprised of approximately 69.8 percent White students, with Asian students making up about 15.4 percent; Hispanic students account for around 6.8 percent and Black students represent roughly 1.1 percent according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Financially, the district spent $31,308 per student in fiscal year 2020 for a total expenditure of $117 million as reported by state education records. There are currently no teachers with more than ten absences during a school year among its staff of over two hundred eighty educators earning an average salary of $94,227 before pension contributions; ninety percent are women and ten percent are men according to official figures.
Student attendance rates remain high as only four students were identified as chronically truant—defined as missing five percent or more school days without valid excuse—in the most recent reporting period; this represents just one-tenth of one percent compared with a statewide average chronic truancy rate nearing ten percent as detailed by ISBE data.
