Students in Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C were released early on May 29 due to a scheduled School Improvement Day. Hickory Creek Middle School dismissed students at 10:45 a.m., Grand Prairie Elementary School at 11:25 a.m., and Chelsea Intermediate School at 12:05 p.m.
The district serves Will County and includes Chelsea Elementary School, Grand Prairie Elementary School, and Hickory Creek Middle School, according to the Illinois Report Card. Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C is an elementary school district located in Frankfort, serving grades pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The district enrolled 2,548 students during the 2019-2020 school year.
Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C has a student population that is 79.9 percent White, 6.7 percent Black, 6.4 percent Hispanic, and 2.7 percent Asian, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. The district employs a total of 168 teachers with an average salary of $57,205 before their taxpayer-funded pension contribution; among them, women make up approximately 89.3 percent while men account for about 10.7 percent.
District spending per student was $17,992 in the year 2020, with total expenditures reaching $45,843,412 during that period, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
There were no chronically truant students reported in Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C for the school year ending in June of that year—a chronic truancy rate of zero percent—while the statewide average was reported as being nearly ten percent by the same source.
