Address: | 5050 Madison Street |
City: | Skokie |
State: | Illinois |
Zipcode: | 60077 |
Country: | United States |
Type: | Public |
Grades: | PreK–8 |
Students: | 1,764 |
Skokie/Morton Grove School District 69 is an elementary school district based in the northern Cook County village for which the district is named: Skokie, Illinois, United States. The district is composed of two elementary schools and one junior high school; one of the two elementary schools is home to a preschool program, while the other elementary school is the only school in the district not located in the village of Skokie.[1] Students that are submitted to the TOPS (Teaching Our Preschoolers) Preschool Program are admitted to one of two teachers in Madison Elementary School,[2] an institution that also teaches students in kindergarten or in grades one and two under direction of principal Christopher Basten.[3]
Those in grades three through five attend Thomas Edison Elementary School in the village of Morton Grove,[4] under direction of principal Andy Carpenter. The last district institution that students attend is Lincoln Junior High School, which accommodates students between grades six and eight,[5] as directed by principal Lorenzo Cervantes. the district superintendent is Margaret Clauson.[6] Each school has a mascot; the mascot of Madison Elementary School is the Superhawk, the mascot of Edison Elementary School is the dolphin,[7] and the Lincoln Junior High mascot is the Spartan.[8]
Lincoln Junior High School runs an intramural sports program, including several clubs.[9]
In 2014 the district sold the campus that was formerly a private Jewish day school, Solomon Schechter Day School,[10] and the Kenton School to the Islamic school MCC Academy.[11]