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Bloomington School District 87, often shortened to District 87, is a school district in Bloomington, Illinois. The district has six elementary schools, a junior high school, and a high school as well as a vocational school and an early education (PreK) school. In the 2014–2015 school year District 87 had 5615 total students and 703 employees.
The following is a list of school districts in Illinois.As of July 1, 2023, there were 852 public school districts, including 368 elementary districts, 97 high school districts, 386 unit districts, and one Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice district, and two cooperative high schools.
In 1953, School District 170 served 2,833 students, and in 2004 the district served 3,550 students. [citation needed] Dollie Helsel retired as superintendent in 2007. Tom Amadio, an alumnus of Bloom High School and formerly the assistant superintendent of Chicago Heights district, became the superintendent in 2007. [2]
Chicago Heights lies on the high land of the Tinley Moraine, with the higher and older Valparaiso Moraine lying just to the south of the city.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Chicago Heights has a total area of 10.30 square miles (26.68 km 2), of which 10.28 square miles (26.63 km 2) (or 99.87%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.13%) is water.
In 2019 the district had 1,838 students. [4] In 2019 a board member resigned but then remained on the school board, and there was a political controversy over the board's internal management. [4] In response to a board member using an SD163-issued charge card to pay for $5,000 of expenses, the board passed a policy regulating the cards. [5]
The school board, known as the Chicago Board of Education, is currently appointed by the mayor of Chicago. Between 2024 and 2027, the board is slated to transition to consist entirely of elected members. [65] [58] The board traces its roots back to the Board of School Inspectors, created in 1837, which was renamed Chicago Board of Education in ...
The new plan called for the first school to accept coed classes until the boys' school was ready, about four years after the school for women was open. The Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois agreed to oversee and staff the new school in 1955. Ground breaking occurred on January 6, 1957, and the school opened in September, 1958.