Community High School District 99 is a local school district serving Downers Grove, Woodridge, Bolingbrook, Darien, Lisle, Oak Brook, and Westmont in the state of Illinois

Illinois

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. It consists of two high schools, North High School and South High School, both located in Downers Grove. The current Superintendent of this district is Dr. Mark McDonald.

Race

White	Black	Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...	Asian Asian people Asian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :... / Pacific Islander Pacific Islander Pacific Islander , is a geographic term to describe the indigenous inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these three regions, together with their islands consist of:Polynesia:...	Native American Indigenous peoples of the Americas The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...	Multi-Racial /Ethnic
77.3%	6.6%	7%	7.6%	.2%	1.4%

Other

Definitions can be found on the District Report Card, page 1.

Low-Income	Limited English Proficiency	Mobility Rate
10.4%	2%	4.3%

Staff

The teaching staff is 412 teachers, who have taught for an average of 14 years. Over 75% of teachers hold a master's degree or higher, and 61.8% are female. The average salary for the equivalent of a full-time teacher is $81,358, over $20,000 above than the state average, and $114,575 for an administrator, over $10,000 above the state average. The Student-to-teacher ratio is 20.7 to 1, and the student to administrator ratio is 167.4 to one.

Sources

Local	State	Federal	Total
$65,028,620	$5,065,003	$1,806,827	$71,900,450
90.4%	7%	2.5 %	100%

Expenses

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$53,896,106	$8,014,406	$5,071,913	$3,084,611	$1,798,764	$299,459	$72,165,259
74.7%	11.1%	7%	4.3%	2.5%	0.4%	100%

School Board

The Board of education for District 99 consists of 7 members. Each member serves for four years, and every other year (during even-numbered years) an election is held. Elections of Board members are scheduled such that four positions come up for election on years divisible by four, and three members come up for election on even numbered years not divisible by four.

Current School Board

• Julia K. Beckman (President)
  • Next election for position: 2008
• Paul McCarthy (Vice President)
  • Next election for position: 2010
• Allyn Barnett
  • Next election for position: 2008
• Craig Greenwood
  • Next election for position: 2008
• Robert Lemke
  • Next election for position: 2010
• Terry Pavesich
  • Next election for position: 2008
• Megan Schroeder
  • Next election for position: 2010