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Posen-Robbins School District 143½ is a school district based in Posen, Illinois near Chicago, United States. [2] The district, which serves all or portions of Posen, Robbins, Blue Island, Harvey, and Markham, is about 20 minutes of transportation away from the Chicago Loop. The district serves grades Pre-K through 8th grade and has over 1,500 ...
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The average household size was 4.25 and the average family size was 3.21. The village's age distribution consisted of 27.4% under the age of 18, 18.2% from 18 to 24, 21.7% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 6.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 130.1 males.
As of the 2020-2021 school year, District 62’s student population consists of 41.6% Hispanic, 37.7% White, 12.7% Asian, 4.2% Black, 3.5% Multiracial, and 0.1% Pacific Islander students. 48.1% of students come from low-income households, 33.7% have limited proficiency in English, and 17% of students with IEPs. 0.9% of students are homeless, lower than the state average at 2%.
Robbins was incorporated on December 14, 1917 [3] [4] and named for Eugene S. Robbins, a real estate developer who laid out the village's early subdivisions. [5] The village's founder and first mayor was Thomas J. Kellar, who noted in an early interview "Our people in Robbins are mostly people who got tired of the white fights and the crowded city.
Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the point system included three categories, each weighted at 300 points instead of the current 450. Instead of the CPS High School Admissions Test, the district used the Selective Enrollment High School exam, and the third category was based on the students' percentile score on the NWEA MAP test.
The district also snapped images of Robbins' instant messages and video chats with his friends, and sent them to its servers. [47] Those 429 images, however, only reflected the number of images later recovered—during the ensuing litigation the district conceded it had been unable to recover a week's worth of images that it had taken. [34]
James B. Herrick, medical doctor; the first to identify sickle cell anemia and coronary thrombosis [78] Kermit E Krantz, surgeon, physician, author, and inventor; co-developed the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz procedure [59] Wilton Krogman, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania [59]