Lake County Gazette

Eighth-grade students Riya Dhondi and Jocelyn Jerome were welcomed as student representatives to the Lincolnshire Prairie View School District 103 Board this week. The Board created the Student Representative position to gain direct feedback from students on various topics. The representatives, who do not have voting rights, discussed the success of Warrior Wednesdays and the implementation of the PikmyKid digital hall pass system during their presentation.

Board members explained that including student voices is important for understanding student perspectives on school matters. "The Student Representative position was created as the Board members felt that it was important for them to hear the opinion of the students on various matters," according to a statement from the board.

Lincolnshire Prairie View School District 103 covers Lake County and includes Daniel Wright Junior High School, Half Day School, and Laura B. Sprague School (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/). The district has 151 teachers with an average salary of $76,028; 85.1 percent are women and 14.9 percent are men. No teacher in the district had more than ten absences in a school year (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).

According to state data, 45.6 percent of students in District 103 are White, 0.5 percent Black, 3.6 percent Hispanic, and 48.4 percent Asian (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/). In 2020, per-student spending was $26,851 for a total expenditure of $50,104,171 (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).