The Waukegan High School Music Department announced on April 27 that it will hold its Spring Concert Series, inviting the community to attend four nights of student performances at the Trapp Auditorium on the WHS Brookside Campus. The concerts begin each evening at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
The event highlights an opportunity for families and residents to support local students as they showcase their musical achievements. The series includes a Spring Band Concert on Monday, a Spring Orchestra Concert on Tuesday, a Spring Choir Concert on Wednesday, and a Spring Jazz Concert on Thursday.
Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 serves Lake County and includes schools such as Andrew Cooke Magnet Elementary School, Carman-Buckner Elementary School, Daniel Webster Middle School, Early Learning Center, Glen Flora Elementary School, Jack Benny Middle School, Miguel Juarez Middle School, North Elementary School, Robert E. Abbott Middle School, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Washington Elementary School, Waukegan High School among others according to the Illinois Report Card.
Demographically, Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 is made up of approximately 3.2 percent White students, 13.2 percent Black students, 79.5 percent Hispanic students and 1.3 percent Asian students according to the ISBE. The district employs over one thousand teachers with an average salary of $63,524 before pension contributions; about seventy-one percent are women while twenty-nine percent are men; there were no teachers with more than ten absences in a school year according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Financially in 2020 the district spent $23,429 per student for a total expenditure of $359 million as reported by ISBE. In terms of attendance challenges during that same year there were over three thousand chronically truant students—meaning they missed five percent or more school days without valid excuse—representing twenty-one percent of enrollment compared with a statewide average of nearly ten percent according to ISBE data.
Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 enrolled over fifteen thousand students during the most recent reported school year and provides education from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in Waukegan and Lake County as noted by ISBE.
