Yorkville School District 115

Police now have the ability to access Yorkville school security cameras in real time, but there are restrictions in place.

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This week, the Illinois State Board of Education released school- and district-level data showing what percentage of Kendall County students were considered proficient in math and reading last year. Check out this chart to see if that's an improvement over the prior year.

Work on eight new tennis courts is at Yorkville High School is set to begin Oct. 21.

Yorkville School District 115 is working on how best to use 100 acres it recently purchased.

In an effort to attract high-quality substitute teachers and relieve the stresses of full-time faculty filling classroom vacancies, the Yorkville School District 115 Board of Education approved at their Aug. 26 meeting increasing substitute teacher pay rates.

The Yorkville Community Unit School District 115 is monitoring the extreme heat weather conditions this week and advising parents and students to take proper safety precautions.

Beginning this school year, the Yorkville Community Unit School District 115 fully takes over crossing guard duties from the Yorkville Police Department.

As Kendall County students prepare get back the books, school districts are mostly keeping their cellphones policies unchanged from previous years. However, there has been increased focus on these policies.

The Brenda Holzer Memorial Foundation has raised thousands of dollars to go toward bettering the lives of disabled children and their families.

The Yorkville High School All Alumni Reunion connects graduates of all classes and promotes homecoming traditions. The 2024 reunion will take place from 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28.

Yorkville City Council voted in favor with all those in attendance on July 9 to approve the project planning components from the Lakota Group on the revitalization of Yorkville’s downtown Hydraulic District.

The students are petitioning to wear pins at graduation to honor a senior who took her own life in March, but administrators have denied the request.

Yorkville School District 115 families will no longer have to visit multiple school buildings to register their children thanks to a new Central Registration Department.

Matthew Zediker is the new Superintendent of Yorkville Community School District 115.

The food offered in Yorkville School District 115 cafeterias is now prepared by Whitsons Culinary Group out of Long Island.

The Illinois Attorney General ordered Yorkville School District 115 to release the minutes and recording of an Aug. 7 closed session meeting after finding that the district had violated the state’s Open Meetings Act.

Yorkville School Board members met Jan 30 to hold a public hearing and approve the district’s new e-learning plan, after a lapse in certification led to the use of three emergency days earlier this month.

Yorkville School District 115 Board members, at their Jan. 22 meeting, voted to comply with orders from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office to release the closed session minutes and recording from an Aug. 7 meeting.

Students in Yorkville School District 115 will have an extra week of classes this semester and three more days added to the spring semester after the district failed to renew its e-learning plan with the Illinois State Board of Education.

Yorkville School District 115 sent a message to parents on Sunday acknowledging a lack of preparedness with its distance learning plan for students during weather emergency days.

Yorkville School District 115 released a statement in response to the Attorney General’s decision, stating “the board believed that it was following the proper exceptions allowed by OMA."

As a winter storm hits the area today, school districts in Kendall County have announced closures and e-learning.

The public is invited to attend Yorkville High School seniors’ presentations of their English capstone projects at the Yorkville Public Library on Jan. 15-18.

The Illinois Attorney General’s Office has determined the Yorkville School District 115 violated the state’s Open Meetings Act when it met in closed session this summer to discuss the removal of the book “Just Mercy” from the district’s curriculum.

Students in the Yorkville School District 115 can now see their calendar for next year, and middle school students will have some new course options in the coming year.

YHS ranked among the top 15% of the nearly 25,000 public high schools in the nation.

Thomas ranked among the top 1% of the students who entered the competition. He is still in consideration for the top level of the program.

Y115 has been seeking a new superintendent since May after former Superintendent Tim Shimp resigned.

Wayland Middendorf was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Jason Senffner’s resignation and was sworn in at Monday’s meeting by President Darren Crawford.

The Attorney General is investigating a complaint filed on Sept. 28 by Marseilles resident Mary Grzywa that the board violated the state’s Open Meetings Act while discussing the book in closed session.

Attorney General investigates complaint over board's decision to pull book from class

At its Aug. 7 meeting, the board changed its decision on a 4-2 vote, directing that the book may no longer be used in the course.

Earlier this year, the parent of a student in the English II Rhetorical Analysis course complained about use of Bryan Stevenson’s book, which takes a critical look at America’s criminal justice system, triggering the district’s uniform grievance procedure.

7,099 students are registered in the Yorkville Y115 School District.

7,099 students are now registered in Yorkville schools.

No danger to students and staff at Circle Center and Yorkville Intermediate schools.

Yorkville Storywalk is from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 20.

Installation of the chillers at both school buildings will take place during the 2024 spring break.

Yorkville School District Y115 is hiring an architectural firm to perform design services for new buildings, building additions and remodels, along with health and life/safety projects.

Yorkville Middle School and Grande Reserve Elementary school need new air-conditioning units.

School district officials say they want members of the community, teachers, staff and students to participate in what they are describing as a multi-faceted selection process.

Gains were made at schools located in Yorkville’s growing subdivisions.

District announces website survey and Sept. 20 community forum.

The district sees modest increase of 198 students over last year.

The concept behind a storywalk is to display an illustrated children’s book, page-by-page, mounted on posts along a park pathway.

The board is expected to approve the proposal next month.

The $2.3 million project, including $1.2 million for the artificial turf itself, is set to get underway on May 15, district Director of Facilities Operations Heather DiVerde said.

“The only thing you can expect as a school social worker is the unexpected,” Resendiz said.

“Yorkville is very near and dear to my heart,” Miragliotta said. “I have a vested interest in Yorkville and am proud to be a teacher in the district.”