Lewis University will host a Family Math Night for Fairmont School District 89 families on April 28. The event is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. at the De La Salle Second Floor on the Lewis University campus, and is open to students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Families are asked to RSVP by April 21.
The event aims to engage families and students with mathematics activities in a university setting, providing an opportunity for community involvement and support of student learning outside regular classroom hours.
Fairmont School District 89 serves Will County and includes Fairmont School within its boundaries, according to the Illinois Report Card according to the Illinois Report Card. The district enrolled 322 students during the 2019-2020 school year and offers education from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade according to the Illinois Report Card.
Demographically, Fairmont School District 89 is composed of approximately 12.7 percent White, 38.5 percent Black, 46 percent Hispanic, and 0.3 percent Asian students according to the Illinois Report Card. The district employs a total of thirty teachers with an average salary of $47,800 before pension contributions; about eighty percent are women while twenty percent are men. There were no teachers in the district with more than ten absences during a school year according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In terms of finances, Fairmont School District spent $21,521 per student in fiscal year 2020 for a total expenditure of $6,929,762 according to the Illinois Report Card. Chronic truancy remains an issue: ninety students were classified as chronically truant during that school year—a rate of twenty-eight point one percent—compared with a statewide average of nine point six percent according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Events like Family Math Night offer additional educational opportunities for both parents and children while strengthening ties between local schools and higher education institutions.
