Lake County Gazette

Students across Collinsville Community Unit School District #10 took part in activities to honor the September 11 Day of Remembrance. The events included creating artwork, listening to stories, observing moments of silence, and placing flags for those who died in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

At Collinsville High School, social studies classes placed flags on the school’s front lawn throughout the day. By the end of the event, a total of 2,997 flags had been set out—one for each life lost during the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 serves schools in Madison and St. Clair counties, including Caseyville Elementary School, Collinsville High School, Collinsville Middle School, Dorris Intermediate School, Jefferson Elementary School, John A. Renfro Elementary School, Kreitner Elementary School, Maryville Elementary School, Summit Elementary School, Twin Echo Elementary School, and Webster Elementary School (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).

The district employs 418 teachers with an average salary of $60,392 before pension contributions. Eighty-one percent are women and nineteen percent are men. No teacher in the district has more than ten absences per year (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).

Demographically, the student population is fifty-six percent White, fourteen point one percent Black, twenty-four point one percent Hispanic, and zero point five percent Asian (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).

In 2020, spending per student was $16,872 with total expenditures reaching $104 million (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).