The Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 Board will hold a Special Session Board Meeting on June 1 at 6:00 p.m. at the Educational Service Center, located at 214 Washington Street, Waukegan, according to a May 29 announcement. The meeting is scheduled to conduct individual interviews with finalists for the Student Board Member positions and discuss specific personnel matters.
The meeting will begin with a brief open session in the Board Room, which will include an opportunity for public comment. Following this, the Board will move into Closed Session in Room 112. No official Board action is planned during this session. The closed session exceptions cited are sections 120/2(c)(3), (c)(10), and (c)(1).
An agenda for the meeting has been made available online.
Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 serves Lake County and includes schools such as Andrew Cooke Magnet Elementary School, Carman-Buckner Elementary School, Clearview Elementary School, Daniel Webster Middle School, Early Learning Center, Glen Flora Elementary School, Glenwood Elementary School, Greenwood Elementary School, H.R. McCall Elementary School, Hyde Park Elementary School, Jack Benny Middle School, John S. Clark Elementary School, Little Fort Elementary School, Lyon Magnet Elementary School, Miguel Juarez Middle School, North Elementary School, Oakdale Elementary School, Robert E. Abbott Middle School, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Washington Elementary School, Waukegan High School and Whittier Elementary school according to the Illinois Report Card.
The district enrolled 15,332 students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade during the 2019-2020 school year and spent $23,429 per student in that period for a total expenditure of $359 million according to the Illinois Report Card. The district’s student population is composed of approximately 79.5 percent Hispanic students; other demographics include Black (13.2 percent), White (3.2 percent), and Asian (1.3 percent) students according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Waukegan Community Unit District employs over one thousand teachers who earn an average salary of $63,524 before pension contributions; most teachers are women (71 percent) and there were no teachers with more than ten absences reported in a school year according to the Illinois State Board of Education. In addition to these figures about staff and finances for recent years, the Illinois State Board of Education reports that during the same period there were over three thousand chronically truant students—defined as missing five percent or more of mandated days without valid excuse—which represents about twenty-one percent of enrollment.
