Bannockburn Elementary School District 106

Bannockburn Elementary School District 106 is a K-8 school district located in the small high-income Lake County village of Bannockburn, Illinois, United States. The school district is composed of one school, known as Bannockburn Elementary School. The school, which serves grades first through eight and also kindergarten, is run by Principal Debbie Barnes and superintendent Dr. Scott Herrmann.[1] Bannockburn Elementary School has fourteen academic teachers, five special education teachers, and four creative arts teachers, with one teacher educating her students in both academic and creative arts classes.[2] The district includes portions of Bannockburn, Deerfield, Highland Park, and Riverwoods.[3]

The athletics team of the school district participates against mostly religious schools, including the Jewish school Hillel Torah and St. Gilbert School of Grayslake, which is a Catholic school.[4]

The school board president is Dr. Lucy Hammerberg. The other school board members are Elise Adley, Jody Figura, David Kotowsky, Nancy Nervick, Carrie Rose, and Jake Leahy[5] The most recent election was on April 4, 2017. Julie Soloway did not seek reelection, while Adley, Nervick, and Kotowsky did. Jake Leahy was elected to fill the vacancy left by Soloway. [6]

The district has been noted for being run in a very fiscally responsible manner. The school board voted to decrease the tax levy by 5% in 2017.[7]

References
  1. Bannockburn School Administration Listing Archived April 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2008-05-13
  2. Bannockburn Elementary School Complete Staff Listing Archived April 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2008-05-13
  3. "Lake County, Illinois District Maps" (PDF).
  4. Directions to Opponent Schools, retrieved 2008-05-13
  5. "Bannockburn School District 106 School Board Members". Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  6. Sadin, Steve. "Some new faces, but few contested races in local elections". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  7. "Bannockburn School District Cuts Tax Levy By 5%". Deerfield, IL Patch. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2018-03-03.


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