Lake County Gazette

Elmwood Elementary School recently held a session of its after-school Cooking Club, where students learned to make grilled cheese sandwiches and continued work on their personalized recipe books. The club is led by Ms. Rose and Ms. Rodriguez. Students also used placemats they had made during a previous meeting.

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

The district employs 164 teachers with an average salary of $58,629 before pension contributions; 83.3 percent are women and 16.7 percent are men. There are no teachers in the district with more than ten absences in a school year, according to data from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). Additional details about teacher statistics are available at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.

Demographically, Zion Elementary School District 6’s student population is 4.9 percent White, 36.6 percent Black, 50.9 percent Hispanic, and 0.2 percent Asian (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).

In the year 2020, the district spent $27,927 per student for a total expenditure of $69,342,294 (https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/).