Principal: Rick Simkins

IAES Corrdinators: Cathy Beres and Kent Charlesworth (no picture available).

Microsoft Contact: Kent Charlesworth

Community Description

Demographics of the School

Elmwood Junior High School ~ The total enrollment in Elmwood Junior High is 128 students. Their ethnic/racial composition is 99.2% White, 0.0% Black, 0.8% Hispanic, 0.0% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 0.0% Native American. The language of all their students is English.

Elmwood Senior High School ~ The total enrollment in Elmwood is 222 students. Their ethnic/racial composition is 97.7% White, 0.9% Black, 1.4% Hispanic, 0.0% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 0.0% Native American. The language of all their students is English.

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Newsworthy Highlights

During the 1996-7 school year Elmwood Jr./Sr. High School is continuting the restructuring effort as an Essential School. The main thrust of that work this year is to finish developing assessments and rubrics for the various elements of The Elmwood Graduate. Those elements include all goals and objectives established for the school.

Another implemenation has been Block 8 scheduling. The school continues to strengthen its core and tech prep curricula in order to stimulate students to gain the most from their school years.

Check out a Travelogue of a visit to Elmwood December 4, 1996.

Check out the Microsoft Professional Development Program: Illinois.

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Created 3/11/97 jak

Updated 3/14/97 jak