Zion Central Middle School’s girls’ basketball team played against Jack Benny Middle School on Tuesday evening. The game also included a performance by the ZCMS/SPMS Baton and Pom team.
The Zion Elementary School District 6, which covers Lake County and includes schools such as Beulah Park Elementary, East Elementary, Elmwood Elementary, Lakeview, Shiloh Park Elementary, West Elementary, and Zion Central Middle School, serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. More information about the district can be found at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
According to data from the Illinois State Board of Education, the district had 2,483 students enrolled during the 2019-2020 school year and employed 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. None of the teachers in this district had more than ten absences in a school year. Details are available at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
Demographically, Zion Elementary School District 6 consists of 4.9 percent White students, 36.6 percent Black students, 50.9 percent Hispanic students, and 0.2 percent Asian students according to ISBE statistics: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
Financially, the district spent $27,927 per student in 2020 for a total expenditure of $69,342,294 as reported by state education officials: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
In terms of attendance challenges, the district recorded a chronic truancy rate of 7.2 percent for the same period with 179 students classified as “chronically truant.” The ISBE defines this as missing five percent or more of mandated school days without a valid excuse; this rate is below the statewide average of 9.6 percent: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
