Evanston township high school boundaries
This will integrate schools without the need to bus students. Burns hopes that the Fifth Ward school will provide a reason for new families to move into the area. However, the closing of the current Bessie Rhodes building as well as the construction of the new school will not begin until the 2024-25 school year. The new school will take in students from Kingsely, Lincolnwood, Willard, Dewey and Orrington, but the current feeding pattern for middle schools will remain the same.īessie Rhodes students, teachers and programs will move to the Fifth Ward school. The school will be K-8, which will cause a change in elementary school boundaries.
“We have the opportunity to repair the historic harm engage in systematic change,” D65 board member Marquise Weatherspoon said prior to the vote. This school will be located in the Fifth Ward, as it has not had one since the closing of Foster School in 1967. On March 14, the District 65 school board approved the creation of a new school. Elise Goulding, Staff Writer | April 18, 2022