Pupil Personnel Service
Enrollment and Transfers
Transferring Out of District
Students who will be transferring out of District 230 must have their parent sign the appropriate paperwork before the transfer can be facilitated.
Course Load – Student Schedule
The normal course load for any one academic year consists of five academic courses plus Physical Education, Period 2, and lunch. Early release schedules are limited to students in approved school-sponsored programs such as Cooperative Education.
Athletes and students participating in competitive co-curriculars should consult the Athletic Eligibility Guidelines under the Athletic Section of the handbook. This outlines course loads necessary to qualify or participate in Illinois High School Association affiliated contests and activities and the NCAA Clearinghouse.
Credits and Class Designation
Classification of students as freshman, sophomore, junior or senior year students will be based on years of attendance.
Schedule Changes
Schedule changes are made during specified times throughout the school year. During the first five days of each semester, students may elect to change courses if space is available.
Changes to schedules are not intended to be used as a means to change lunch periods, class periods, or instructors. Athletes should be aware of how schedule changes would impact their athletic eligibility.
After the first five days of the semester, students, with staff and parent permission, may elect to drop a class and replace it with a study hall providing that the student is carrying the minimum number of courses to be considered a full-time student. Students who drop a class during the first nine weeks of a semester may be placed in a study hall and will not be permitted to transfer from the dropped class to another class.
During the second nine weeks of a semester, students receive an automatic failing grade in any course that is dropped. Students who have failed a yearlong course the first semester may be placed in a second-semester course if space is available. Seniors will have first priority in such placement. If space is not available in a course, students will be placed in a study hall.
Driver’s Education
According to Illinois School Code, each student must receive a passing grade in at least 8 academic courses during the previous 2 semesters prior to enrolling in a driver education course, or the student shall not be permitted to enroll in the course. In rare cases, after consulting with faculty and staff, the Superintendent may waive this requirement. The same law applies to students who choose commercial driving schools. If a student has not met this requirement before taking the behind-the-wheel course at a driving school, the student will not receive a waiver afterwards.
Substitutions for Physical Education and Other Required Courses (Policy 6:310)
Commencement and Graduation Requirements
Teachers and parents are encouraged to confer at any time regarding the student’s progress. Contact times can be arranged by contacting the teacher(s) during school hours.
Certificate of Completion
A student with a disability who has an Individualized Education Program prescribing special education, transition planning, transition services, or related services beyond the student’s 4 years of high school qualifies for a certificate of completion after the student has completed 4 years of high school. The student is encouraged to participate in the graduation ceremony of his or her high school graduation class. The building administration shall provide timely written notice of this opportunity to students with disabilities and their parents/guardians.
Commencement Exercises
Students who have completed all graduation requirements are encouraged to participate in commencement exercises. Students who elect mid-year graduation may choose to participate in a mid-term commencement ceremony or the Spring commencement exercises if they desire. Students who elect mid-year graduation are not eligible for continual participation in D230 co-curricular activities past the mid-year graduation date. Students who elect to participate in commencement exercises will be required to adhere to all rules and regulations. The district reserves the right to remove the privilege of a student’s participation in a commencement exercise for gross misconduct.
Curriculum Content (Policy 6:60)
Early Graduation
All students are encouraged to attend high school for four full years in order to take advantage of complete program offerings and enrichment courses. Students may apply to their counselor for early graduation upon completion of 6 or more semesters of school attendance and when they have met all graduation requirements. Permission for early graduation may be granted to a student by the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the Superintendent.
In summary, students will be permitted to graduate early, but in no fewer than three years, provided that the following conditions are met:
Requirements for graduation, as established by the Board of Education, have been achieved.
Written parental approval has been obtained.
Proper application, notification and counseling through the guidance department has been completed.
The deadline dates for approval of early graduation are: January graduation - by August 15th, Spring graduation - by December 15th.
In addition, all students must take the state-mandated assessments as a condition of receiving a regular high school diploma unless the student is exempted for the following reasons:
The student’s individualized educational program developed under Article 14 of the School Code identifies the state-mandated assessment as inappropriate for the student; or
The student is exempt due to the student’s lack of English language proficiency; or
The student is enrolled in a program of Adult and Continuing Education as defined in the Adult Education Act
Graduation Requirements
(Policy 6:300) Graduation Requirements
Course Requirements for Graduation (Policy 6:300 ED1)
Classes meet for 18 weeks and earn ½ credit.
Service Learning (Policy 6:300 APD4)
Veterans of World War II, the Korean Conflict or Vietnam Conflict
Upon application, an honorably discharged veteran of World War II or the Korean Conflict, or Vietnam will be awarded a diploma, provided that he or she: (1) resided within an area currently within the District at the time he or she left high school, (2) left high school before graduating in order to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, and (3) has not received a high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED).
PPS Roles and Responsibilities
Student Services Team
To address and accommodate the needs of all students, CHSD 230 provides a comprehensive Student Services Program that features an integrated system of support. Interventions are coordinated and communicated between home, school, and in some cases outside agencies, and are designed to assist students with their academic progress, personal/social development and career planning needs. The goal of the delivery model is to integrate services to students in the following areas:
Academic/Career Guidance Services
Support Services (including crisis intervention, PPS team, community outreach)
Discipline Services
Special Education
Student Assistance Program (substance abuse)
Alternative Education Opportunities
The District 230 Student Services model is aligned with The National Standards for School Counseling Programs. These standards coordinate goals, expectations, support systems and experiences for students, parents, and staff to engage in conversations about expectations for students’ academic success and the role of Student Services programs in enhancing student learning to the fullest extent.
Staff involved in the Student Services team includes:
Associate Principal
Guidance Director and Counselors
Special Education Directors
Psychologists
Social Workers
Nurses
Student Assistance Coordinators
Head Deans and Deans
Regular Education and Special Education Staff (as needed)
Guidance and Student Services Information
The Guidance Department works collaboratively to provide a comprehensive developmental counseling program to all students.
To assist students in successfully navigating the high school process while helping to prepare them for post-secondary options
To advocate for students by acting as liaison to all academic departments, school services and the community
To provide academic advising, career and post-secondary guidance and personal/social support to all students
Contact Information for the Guidance Department is as follows:
Andrew High School: (708) 342-5822
Sandburg High School: (708) 671-3121
Stagg High School: (708) 974-7421
Parents and students are encouraged to contact the Guidance Office to inform the student’s counselor of significant life changes, concerns, or crises. Support services can assist students in these situations.
Nursing Services
The School Nurse is available on a full-time basis to help students with their health problems, including:
Personal health conferences may be held with individual students at the student’s request, teacher’s request, or as the nurse deems necessary.
Tests for vision and hearing are done annually for transfer students, students receiving special education services, on a referral by teachers, or at the request of any student who feels he/she has a visual or hearing problem. Should there be any indication for further examination, notification is sent to the parents advising consultation with their family physician. Parent should notify the school nurse if they do not want their student tested.
Standard first aid is available to those students who become ill or injured while at school. However, first aid is immediate and temporary care. Care beyond first aid must be provided by the parents or family physician.
If students have questions concerning their health, they should make arrangements to see the nurse. However, the student should remember that there are appropriate times to see the nurse and certain procedures to be followed:
Get a pass from the teacher.
Use good judgment as to the time to come to the Nurse’s Office.
Come in for first-aid immediately following an injury that occurs at school, especially in physical education class.
Adapted Physical Education
Students who are excused from participation in physical education for medical reasons must satisfy the physical education requirement by successful completion of classes in adapted physical education. An application form is available in the Health Office.
Elevator Keys and/or Pass
When a student is unable to walk up or down stairs because of a health problem or injury, an elevator key and or pass can be obtained from the nurse as needed. If a student fails to return the key when it is no longer needed, or if the key is lost, then a fee will be assessed to the student.
Physical Education Absence
When a health care provider removes a student from physical education class, he or she must also provide a re-entry note unless a specific time-frame is provided. A student may be required to submit an updated doctor’s note for an ongoing medical condition. A student may also be excused from participating in physical education class for a maximum of two days with a parent note.
Safe/Healthy Environment
The Consolidated High School District 230 Board of Education recognizes the importance of maintaining a school environment that is free from communicable diseases. It also recognizes that a student with a communicable disease is eligible for all rights, privileges, and services provided by law and the district’s policies. A student with a communicable disease will be dealt with on an individual basis in accordance with Board of Education Policy and specifics detailed in Board procedure 7:280. Copies of this procedure are available upon request from the Health Office.
School Nurse Release
A student who becomes ill during the school day should report to the Nurse’s Office. A parent or parent designee will be contacted and must sign out the student if the student is going home. Verbal permission must be obtained if the student will be driving home if parked in the school lot. All other dismissals are handled as off-campus passes through the Attendance Office.
Home & Hospital Services (homebound)
A student who is absent from school for an extended period of time or ongoing intermittent absences because of a medical condition may be eligible for instruction in the student’s home or hospital. The student’s physician must document the need for services by completing the form available from the guidance counselor. When homebound is approved as the most appropriate educational service, instruction will begin. Upon receiving a physician’s release to return to school, the parent should contact the student’s guidance counselor to schedule a re-entry meeting. Students returning to school after homebound instruction must report to the Nurses’ office before going to class and present a physician’s medical release allowing the student to participate in school.
Psychological Services
The school psychologist is a support person for students and staff. The services provided include: evaluation of and recommendations regarding learning or behavioral difficulties of students to determine whether they might benefit from a special program or service; counseling of students; staff and parent conferences and consultations; referrals outside of school; and annual review of the placement of students in special programs or services.
All inquiries regarding school psychological services should begin by contacting the student’s guidance counselor. This contact can be made by the student, teachers, or by the student’s parents/guardians. The Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) Team must review all referrals for evaluation or assessment. This team will determine the appropriate action to address concerns regarding a student’s academic, behavioral, or emotional growth.
School Counselor
Guidance and counseling services are available for every student to encourage and assist in planning educational programs to address student skills, motivation, and interests.
A second function of the school counselor is to help students with post-high school planning. Using a variety of school resources, students are assisted in planning for educational, vocational and other growth experiences beyond high school. The counselor also works to encourage the appropriate social and emotional development of students and to facilitate communication between parents, students, school personnel, and the community.
Social Work Services
As an integral part of the Pupil Personnel Service Team the school social workers provide auxiliary supportive service to the educational mission of the district. The basic objective, compatible with that of education in general, is to assist students in realizing their learning potential when stress or other social/emotional factors are interfering. Primarily, the social worker’s efforts are directed towards the improvement of the individual’s academic functioning. The initial referral for social work can come from various sources: administrators, teachers, counselors, psychologists, special educators, nurses, parents, and the students themselves. Social workers assess school-related problems and their possible causes. Based on this assessment, recommendations are made which may include: programming modifications, referrals to appropriate community resources, and/or school social work services. School social workers also provide crisis intervention as-needed, and engage in effective problem solving with students when appropriate. Any student in the district may talk to a social worker. Students should go through the guidance department to arrange an appointment.
Speech & Language Services
Speech-Language Services are available for those displaying deficits with communication that adversely affect the student’s academic achievement and/or functional performance and/or ability to establish and maintain social relationships. Speech-Language Pathologists provide services to address the speech, expressive language, receptive language and/or pragmatic/social language needs identified through the evaluation procedures and based on the adverse effect on education. All inquiries regarding school Speech-Language Services should begin by contacting the student’s guidance counselor. This contact can be made by the student, teachers, or by the student’s parents/guardians. The Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) Team must review all referrals for evaluation or assessment. This team will determine the appropriate action to address concerns regarding a student’s communication, academic, behavioral, or emotional growth.
Student Assistance Coordinator
The Student Assistance Coordinator is an additional support person that specializes in assisting students and families with addiction and rehabilitation. The Student Assistance Coordinator works with students and families in both preventative and reactionary measures and serves as a liaison with outside facilities and supports. Inquiries regarding Student Assistant Coordinator services should begin by contacting the student’s guidance counselor. This contact can be made by students, teachers, deans, or student’s parents/guardians.
PPS Support
Intervention Room
The PPS Intervention Room is intended to offer Response to Intervention Tier 2 interventions, available period by period, or all day, for at-risk students and/or for students who struggle with social and emotional needs. The purpose of this program is to provide non-traditional learners with relevant opportunities required to develop the academic, college-career readiness, social, emotional, and behavioral skills necessary for a successful post-secondary transition. It is also intended to provide non-exclusionary discipline measures.
Period 2 (Student Advisory/Intervention/Enrichment)
Period 2 is designed to offer all students an opportunity to develop a positive long-term relationship with at least one adult in their school building. Period 2 will offer students both an advisory curriculum on assigned days and an opportunity for intervention or enrichment on opposing assigned days. Period 2 will not occur on late start Wednesdays or weather-related late starts.
Post Secondary Supports
Financial Aid Information
Financial aid information such as that listed below is distributed each year to all seniors. This information is also available to any interested students, parents, or community members.
The State of Illinois Student Aid Programs
Illinois Monetary Awards
General Assembly Awards
Special Education Grants
ocational Rehabilitation Grants
Veterans Military Service Scholarships
Special Education Teacher Awards
Children of Veterans Awards
National Merit Scholarships - These awards are based on test results from the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Grants vary according to the need to the student.
Local Scholarships - These awards are given each year by various clubs and organizations in the area. Applications are available in the Guidance Office usually in February. Interviews are also held by the various groups.
Students interested in securing scholarships or awards listed above, or who are interested in financial aid in general, should contact the Guidance Department to check out eligibility requirements and to obtain applications.
Scholarships & Awards
The Guidance Department has financial aid information to assist students and their parents with the important task of financing a college education. This information includes the many scholarships sponsored by clubs, organizations, businesses and foundations. A student guide to Federal financial aid programs is also available. This booklet contains the following information:
1. Federal Student Aid Programs
2. Pell Grants
3. Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants
4. Stafford/Perkins Loans
5. College Work Study
6. Guaranteed Student Loan and PLUS Loans
Miscellaneous
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is maintained for the benefit of students. A debit card program is available to all students. Through participation in the subsidized National School Lunch and Special Milk Programs, it is possible for hot lunches and milk to be served at a reasonable cost to students.
Cashier’s Office
The Cashier’s Office provides a variety of items for student purchase including: P.E. uniforms, locks and workbooks. Hours will be posted on the cashier’s window at the beginning of school. All items for sale in the cashier’s office must be paid in full at time of purchase.
Directory Information
From time-to-time, military recruiters and postsecondary educational institutions request the names, telephone numbers, and addresses of our secondary students. The school must provide this information unless the parent(s)/guardian(s) request that it not be disclosed without prior consent. If you do not want military recruiters or institutions of higher learning to be given your secondary school student’s name, address, and telephone number, parents must indicate this decision as part of the summer online registration process.
Insurance
SCHOOL ACCIDENT INSURANCE POLICY is offered to students each year at a nominal fee. While the insurance is not compulsory PARENTS SHOULD REALIZE THAT THEY ACCEPT FULL FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCIDENTS TO THEIR CHILD WHILE THE STUDENT IS ON SCHOOL PROPERTY, INCLUDING AMBULANCE TRANSPORTS.
Media Center
The Media Center plays an integral part in the school’s educational curriculum. In addition to providing recreational reading, the Media Center offers a variety of resources for all students and staff. The media staff is available to assist students with their educational needs. In addition, the media specialists assist staff with planning and delivering instruction. The media center strives to provide:
-A supportive learning environment where students can share and seek ideas;
-A variety of materials to support literacy, critical thinking, research and technology;
-A creative space to empower students to be independent and efficient lifelong learners;
-Group and individual support to meet students’ learning goals.
Media Center Expectations:
-Media resources are a part of the school and the District’s property; books should be returned in a timely manner. If books and/or materials are not returned, the student’s account will be charged for the replacement cost at the end of every school year.
-Students are expected to provide a pass from a teacher if coming into media during an assigned class period.
Students must use their ID to check-in to the media center and to check-out resources.
-Students are expected to behave appropriately in the media center and follow school rules.
Work Permits
Work permits may be applied for in the Guidance Office. If a student is under age 16, he/she will need to provide the following:
Birth Certificate
Statement of intention to employ signed by the prospective employer specifying what work you are doing and the title of the job.
Proof of physical exam completed within one year prior to application and signed by your physician or the school nurse.
Social Security number.
According to law, a parent, guardian, or custodian must accompany the minor when applying. Application should be made at least 48 hours prior to issuing the form.
Certain occupations are ineligible for work permits. Questions or concerns should be directed to the Guidance Office.