Last Friday, Zion Central Middle School held a community movie night for families. Attendees were offered popcorn and watched “Zootopia 2.” The event was intended to provide an evening of entertainment and foster community engagement among ZCMS families.
Zion Central Middle School is part of the Zion Elementary School District 6, which serves Lake County and includes several schools such as Beulah Park Elementary, East Elementary, Elmwood Elementary, Lakeview School, Shiloh Park Elementary, and West Elementary. More information about the district can be found at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
The district employs 164 teachers with an average salary of $58,629 before pension contributions. Most teachers are women (83.3 percent), while men make up 16.7 percent of the teaching staff. There are no teachers in the district with more than ten absences during a school year according to data from the Illinois State Board of Education: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
Demographically, Zion Elementary School District 6 consists of approximately 4.9 percent White students, 36.6 percent Black students, 50.9 percent Hispanic students, and 0.2 percent Asian students as reported by ISBE: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
In terms of spending, the district spent $27,927 per student in 2020 for a total expenditure of $69,342,294: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
During the 2020 school year, there were 179 chronically truant students in Zion Elementary School District 6—representing a chronic truancy rate of 7.2 percent—which is below the statewide average of 9.6 percent: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/. Chronic truancy is defined as missing five percent or more of mandated school days without valid excuse.
Zion Elementary School District 6 enrolled 2,483 students during the 2019-2020 academic year and serves grades pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Zion and Lake County: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
