By: Diane Benjamin

Being below State standards is pretty difficult to accomplish, this district is way below. The dark green is State:

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Learning the basics is evidently not required for graduation:

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Community Colleges are forced to teach the graduates of this school because the District didn’t:

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The teachers can’t be blamed because they are all highly rated: 🤔

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Maybe EQUITY is more important than teaching:

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All of this data is from the Illinois School Report Card website: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/District.aspx?source=profile&Districtid=17064019026

If you click that link you can see what district this is: Ridgeview.

The only reason I looked it up is because the Pantagraph has a story today about the district spending $32 million dollars over the next 2 years on facilities.

Enrollment is mostly decreasing:

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Erik Young, Superintendent, was paid this in 2024: (openthebooks.com)

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The children not being educated in the Ridgeview School District are being robbed of a future. They will have nice buildings to be propagandized in however.

If this information was widely available property values in the district would plummet. Schools is one of the main things buyers look at before moving.

See this page on the State website: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/district.aspx?source=accountability&Districtid=17064019026

All 3 district schools are rated “commendable”.

I’d be willing to bet only a handful of people bothered to vote in the last school board election. Congrats, we got what you didn’t vote for.

One more:

Ridgeview is spending $18,000 a year per student while teacher salaries are below state average. Where is that $18,000 a year going?