About Our District
Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 is a creative, proactive school system in the southwest Chicago suburbs, dedicated to ensuring that all students learn, achieve and grow to their maximum potential.
In 2011-12, District 202 serves 28,910 students from a 64-square mile area encompassing all or parts of Bolingbrook; Crest Hill; Joliet; Lockport; Naperville; Plainfield; Romeoville and unincorporated Will and Kendall counties. In 2010-2011, District 202 was the fourth largest public school system in Illinois.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to serve the community as the primary source of comprehensive, high quality education in a trusting, supportive environment - to develop, at all levels, responsible, successful citizens by providing an education, in cooperation with home and community, which fosters each individual's value, uniqueness, and importance and promotes lifelong learning in an ever-changing society.
OUR VISION
District 202's work is guided by a Five-Year Strategic Plan which defines the District's goals and outlines work to create and maintain a first-class school system. The current Strategic Plan runs through 2016.
SCHOOLS
District 202 has 30 schools - 17 elementary, seven middle schools, four traditional high schools, an alternative school and an early learning center.
STUDENTS
District 202's official 2011-2012 enrollment is 28,910 students based on the state Fall Housing Report,
DIVERSITY
District 202 has experienced tremendous growth and increasing diversity in recent years.
In 1990, the district counted five schools and about 3,500 students. Projections call for the district to eventually house about 50,000 students in 55 schools. In the mid-2000s enrollment increased by an average of about 2,400 students a year for about five years. District officials expect enrollment growth to resume when the economy improves, but at a more moderate pace of several hundred new students annually.
DISTRICT ACHIEVEMENT
District 202 schools do well overall on state standardized tests. Student achievement has improved dramatically over the last seven years, during the heart of the period of intensive growth.
What’s more, District 202 has made significant progress in closing the achievement gap between its white and minority students.
And, District 202’s academic improvement since 2003-2004 (when the No Child Left Behind Act was implemented) outpaced the state average in nearly every category.
- 82.4 percent of all students met or exceeded state learning standards on all tests in 2011 – up 16.8 percentage points from 2003-2004*
- District 202’s composite ACT score among 2011 graduates was 20.7, up from 20.6 last year. The state average ACT composite score was 20.6*
- About 91 percent of all District 202 students graduate, compared to about 84 percent
statewide.*
IMPROVEMENT ONGOING
At the same time, district administration, teachers and staff are working hard to improve academic achievement at all levels by:
- Increasing the rigor of district curriculum at every level;
- Increasing access to more challenging coursework to all students, and especially at the high school level;
- Creating a fully coordinated and articulated (aligned level to level, and building to building) curriculum to eliminate “learning gaps” and ensure equitable opportunity for all students regardless of which school they attend;
- Developing common local assessments to create better, more useful data to guide instruction;
- Developing data-driven school improvement plans;
- Increasing and improving the type and quality of support systems and resources to help all students achieve more.
CURRICULUM
District 202 is engage in a multi-year process to create its own curriculum, aligned to local, state and national learning standards.
Each core area curriculum undergoes a thorough cycle of review, testing and adjustment led by teachers, and incorporating community input.
FINANCES
District 202’s annual 2011-2012 operating budget is $242.2 million, up about $4 million, or 1.5 percent from last year. Operating budget revenues are up slightly, from $242.4 million last year, to $242.8 million this year.
The total budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year is $279.1 million, down $4.8 million from $283.9 million, or 1.7 percent from last year. Total budget revenues are up $3.7 million, from $273.2 million to $276.9 million, or about 1.3 percent.
STAFF
In 2011-2012, District 202 employs about 3,100 regular full and part-time staff members, who are represented by two professional associations. The Association for Plainfield Teachers represents about 1,875 certified staff, and the Plainfield Association of Support Staff represents about 1,060 non-certified staff. The district also has about 170 non-union support staff and administrators.
TEACHER/ADMINISTRATOR PROFILE
The average District 202 teacher salary in 2010-2011 was $57,563, compared to the state average of $64,978. *
The average District 202 teacher had 9.8 years of experience in 2010-2011, versus the state average of 13.2 years. Finally, 59.8 percent of all District 202 teachers had masters degrees or above, compared to the state average of 60.4 percent. *
The average District 202 administrator salary in 2010-2011 was $101,675 compared to the state average of $109,759. *
District 202’s general administrative costs in 2009-2010 totaled 1.8 percent of its budget, compared to the state average of 3.2 percent. *
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS/FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
District 202 is dedicated to open, transparent and efficient two-way public communications through many means, including the IllinoisFreedom of Information Act (FOIA). Click here for more information about requesting public documents, records, etc.
*All data reported on the 2011 Illinois State Report Card
PLEASE NOTE:
Projects or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal grant money must credit the Federal government for the Federal government's portion of the financial support. This web page citation informs the public that the use of Federal dollars in Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 meets the Stevens Amendment requirement. Staff development opportunities, resource purchases and personnel have been funded in whole or in part with Federal entitlement dollars.
