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| Kenilworth, Illinois was incorporated on February 5,
1896, as the smallest village in America. Today, Kenilworth School District
No. 38 is one of the smallest in the State of Illinois. Size is one of the
districts greatest assets affording children the unique opportunity of ten
years of schooling at a single site. This allows families and faculty to
form strong relationships over time, where children can walk to school, ride
their bicycles or rollerblade year after year. Ten years of schooling at a
single site result in students forming life-long friendships with classmates
so that years later they enjoy the most unusual phenomenon of any grammar
school: class reunions.
The earliest school records, dated September 4, 1901, list one teacher and thirteen students in the primary department. Among them was Ethel Hadley, the first African American student at Sears. She was the daughter of the Sears family coachman and later became a school teacher. In 1924, enrollment was 450 with 24 teachers. The school's enrollment peaked during the 1970's when it climbed to over 700. Today, there are 573 students in junior kindergarten through eighth grade. There are 50 full and part-time teachers and 13 instructional assistants. Sears School officials have repeatedly over the years resisted State legislative challenges to consolidate small districts and thus, it remain proudly small today. Today, Kenilworth students, consistently rank in the 98th percentile nationally on standardized tests. In state-wide testing by subject area, Sears repeatedly ranks among the top districts in the State. Foreign language instruction begins in kindergarten with children studying Spanish through second grade. They continue with French in third, fourth and fifth grades; and in sixth through eighth grade they choose either Spanish, French or Latin for a three-year sequence of study that results in placement into the second year of a language as a ninth grader at New Trier. Latin has always had the largest enrollment of the three language choices in the junior high school. And all of the sixth, seventh and eighth graders continue to enjoy the manual training known as Industrial Arts where they learn woodworking and Home Arts, formerly known as Domestic Science, where students learn to cook, to quilt and the important aspects of nutrition and healthy living. |
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