Type Public School board 7 members Phone +1 708-246-3700 NCES district ID 1741820 Superintendent Brian Barnhart | Grades Pre-K through 8 Student-teacher ratio 13.84:1 Number of students 1,477 Number of schools 4 | |
Address United States, 4335 Howard Ave, Western Springs, IL 60558, United States | ||
Western Springs School District 101 is an elementary school district located in the affluent central Cook County village of Western Springs, Illinois, which is a Chicago suburb. The district is composed of four schools: three are elementary schools and one is a junior high school, and all four are located in the village of Western Springs. Students may begin their education as prekindergarteners in John Laidlaw Elementary School or Forest Hills Elementary School, where they will remain until grade five; the principals of the schools are, respectively, Sarah L. Coffey and D. A. Farrell. Alternatively, students may enter prekindergarten at McClure Junior High School before starting kindergarten in principal Brad Promisel's Field Park Elementary School, which accommodates its students until grade five, as with the other elementary schools. All elementary schools feed back into McClure Junior High School, where they are educated between grades six and eight under direction of principal F. Daniel Chick. The district's superintendent is Brian Barnhart.