Skokie/Morton Grove School District 69

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Skokie/Morton Grove School District 69
Address
5050 Madison Street
Skokie
, Illinois, 60077
United States
District information
TypePublic
GradesPreK–8 [1]
NCES District ID 1736480 [1]
Students and staff
Students1,764 [1]
Other information
Website www.sd69.org

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. [2] Students that are submitted to the TOPS (Teaching Our Preschoolers) Preschool Program are admitted to one of two teachers in Madison Elementary School, [3] an institution that also teaches students in kindergarten or in grades one and two under direction of principal Christopher Basten. [4]

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Those in grades three through five attend Thomas Edison Elementary School in the village of Morton Grove, [5] under direction of principal Andy Carpenter.[ citation needed ][ when? ] The last district institution that students attend is Lincoln Junior High School, which accommodates students between grades six and eight, [6] as directed by principal Lorenzo Cervantes.[ citation needed ][ when? ]As of 2015 the district superintendent is Margaret Clauson. [7] Each school has a mascot; the mascot of Madison Elementary School is the Superhawk, the mascot of Edison Elementary School is the dolphin, [8] and the Lincoln Junior High mascot is the Spartan. [9]

Lincoln Junior High School runs an intramural sports program, including several clubs. [10]

History

In 2014 the district sold the campus that was formerly a private Jewish day school, Solomon Schechter Day School, [11] and the Kenton School to the Islamic school MCC Academy. [12]

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