D120 Superintendent’s Message
December 2024
When our community voted to support the building referendum in November, it was a great show of support for what we are trying to achieve for our students at Mundelein High School.
Our work is all directed towards bettering student outcomes and improving facilities is one way to create an excellent educational opportunity for all of our students.
But there are many other factors that go into providing a quality education. And I’m proud to tell you that our teachers, staff and administrators are supporting the efforts of every student at MHS to grow and develop to their full potential.
The value we place on academics continues to make a difference for students. Here are a few examples:
- Our graduation rate, which had been somewhere between 89 and 91 percent for years, is now at 94 percent.
- During the 2023-24 school year, every one of our 29 varsity athletic teams was named to the Northwestern Suburban Conference All-Academic team.
- The State School Report Card overall index for MHS increased this year by 3.28 points to 84.1.
- The MHS Class of 2024 saw 55 percent of its graduates take at least one AP course and exam during high school, 49 percent score 3 or higher on at least one AP exam, and 16 percent complete five or more AP exams. These numbers earned MHS a Silver Distinction on the College Board’s 2024 Advanced Placement Program School Honor Roll.
We’re proud of these achievements and of the people who continue to perform great work to improve student outcomes.
As far as facilities improvements go, we’re already getting started on the work. But it won’t be so obvious to the casual observer at first. At this time, we’re preparing the sites for future work and sending out bids for contracted work.
Our first project will be to upgrade the interior of the MHS Annex at 1500 W. Hawley Street to make room for our Transition Center program, a place where participants aged 18-22 can learn how to live as independent adults. The Transition Center is currently on the north side of the high school building where much of the building’s transformation will eventually take place.
We will keep you up to date with each step of the process on the same website we used to inform you of the referendum in the first place: https://www.d120.org/2024-building-plan/. We’ll also send you messages as we reach milestones along the way.