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6 | November 14, 2019 | the mokena messenger news
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Report card shows D210
schools some of best in state
T.J. Kremer III, Editor
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The grades are in, and
all three Lincoln-Way
Community High School
District 210 schools
have received “Exemplary”
status, according
to the 2019 Illinois Report
Card, an annual assessment
of the state’s
schools.
For the second year in a
row, all three LW schools
placed in the Top 10 percent
academically, with
some of the highlights being
graduation rates and
SAT scores.
Overall, the district
boasted a four-year graduation
rate of 95.5 percent,
compared with the state
average of 85.9 percent;
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however, this number was
slightly down from its
2018 graduation rate of
96.8 percent, compared
with the state average
of 85.4 percent from the
same year.
The 2019 graduation
rate compared almost exactly
to data that showed
that ninth-graders in the
district were 95.6 were on
track to graduate, compared
with the state average
of 86.6 percent.
Across the district, 17.8
percent of students earned
a Level 4 — which is designated
“Exceeds Standards,”
the highest level
attainable — on the ELA
portion of the SAT scores
and 13.5 percent in the
same category for math,
compared with the state’s
average of 10.6 percent
and 9.1 percent, respectively.
Those numbers appear
to fair well for D210 students,
as approximately 83
percent of D210’s Class
of 2018 students were enrolled
in a two- or fouryear
college within 12-16
months of graduation,
compared with the state
average of approximately
73 percent.
Other data showed the
district’s student population
in decline, losing
87 students, down from
7,010 in 2018 to 6,923
in 2019. The district is
also operating with fewer
teachers in 2019, down
from 404 in 2018 to 390
in 2019. Average class
sizes increased from 20 in
2018, which was also the
state’s average that year,
to 26.4 in 2019, compared
with the state average of
21.7.
Editorial Intern Carly Styka
contributed to this report.
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ous posting was at Camp
Pendleton three years
ago. The Marines decided
I needed to get some culture
so they sent me to the
Air Force.”
Norm will officially retire
in January 2020.
“I’m going to miss the
people,” he said. “During
hardships, you form
some pretty strong bonds.
When you work with people
that are committed to
you, to holding you to a
high standard and always
having my back means a
lot.”
At the end of November,
the Mitchell family
will move to Colorado
Springs, Colorado, and
Norm will return to college
to study business.
“I still plan on serving
my country in other
ways,” he said. “The Marines
do a lot of humanitarian
work. It was an
absolute honor and privilege
to serve in the Marine
Corps. I consider life
to be pursuit, something
you never succeed at. Any
ideal you strive for is always
out of reach, which
is a good thing.”
As the celebration
dwindled down, Norm
gave one last comment.
“A lot of people talk
about military service
and associate it with sacrifice,”
he began. “Part of
the reason I’m uncomfortable
with gatherings
like this is because I feel
I have not sacrificed that
much. There are others
who have given their
lives, given up limbs and
had more difficulty than
I’ve had to face. I’m not
a religious person, but I
look at Jesus Christ as
the one who made the
ultimate sacrifice, which
serves as an ideal for that.
If I can pursue a life that
Jesus exemplified, I will
be a happy man.”