Frankfort School District 157C announced on March 10 that all after school events and activities have been canceled for the day because of forecasted severe weather conditions. Students from Chelsea Elementary School, Grand Prairie Elementary School, and Hickory Creek Middle School will be dismissed at their regular times and are expected to go home immediately after school.
The district said the cancellation affects all clubs, rehearsals, athletic practices, and athletic events. Regular dismissal times remain unchanged: Hickory Creek Middle School at 2:10 PM, Grand Prairie Elementary School at 2:50 PM, and Chelsea Intermediate School at 3:30 PM.
Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C represents Will County and includes Chelsea Elementary School, Grand Prairie Elementary School, and Hickory Creek Middle School according to the Illinois Report Card. The district serves grades pre-kindergarten through eighth grade and enrolled 2,548 students in the 2019-2020 school year according to the Illinois Report Card.
Demographically, Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C is composed of approximately 79.9 percent White students, with Black students making up 6.7 percent, Hispanic students at 6.4 percent, and Asian students at 2.7 percent according to the Illinois Report Card.
The district employs a total of 168 teachers who earn an average salary of $57,205 before pension contributions; about 89.3 percent are women while men make up the remaining percentage. There were no teachers with more than ten absences in a school year according to the Illinois Report Card.
In terms of student attendance, Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C reported zero chronically truant students during the 2020 school year—a chronic truancy rate of zero percent—while the statewide average is nearly ten percent according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Financially, the district spent $17,992 per student in 2020 for a total expenditure of $45,843,412 according to the Illinois Report Card.
