Lake County Gazette

The West Youth Leadership Team recently partnered with Erica Delgado and retired social workers from Zion Elementary School District 6 for an event called "Beauty Beyond the Break." The event focused on promoting mindfulness and healing by allowing participants to smash plates as a form of healthy emotional release. Organizers plan to use the broken pieces to create community mosaics, which will represent growth, renewal, and beauty.

"This event encouraged mindfulness and healing through plate smashing as a healthy emotional release. The broken pieces will soon become community mosaics, symbolizing growth, renewal, and beauty," according to organizers.

Zion Elementary School District 6 serves Lake County and includes Beulah Park Elementary School, East Elementary School, Elmwood Elementary School, Lakeview School, Shiloh Park Elementary School, West Elementary School, and Zion Central Middle School. More information about the district can be found at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.

Data from the Illinois State Board of Education shows that Zion Elementary School District 6 employs 164 teachers with an average salary of $58,629 before pension contributions. The teaching staff is composed of 83.3 percent women and 16.7 percent men. No teacher in the district has more than ten absences in a school year. Details are available at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.

Demographically, the district's student population is made up of approximately 4.9 percent White students, 36.6 percent Black students, 50.9 percent Hispanic students, and 0.2 percent Asian students (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).

In 2020, Zion Elementary School District 6 spent $27,927 per student for a total expenditure of $69,342,294 (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).