Elgin Area School District U46, often referred to as "U-46", is a
unit school district headquartered in
Elgin,
Kane County, Illinois.
Covering , the district serves portions of eleven communities in the northwest suburbs of
Chicago in
Cook
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,
DuPage and
Kane Counties.
School District U-46 serves over 40,000 children in grades preK-12. The district ranks as the second largest in Illinois with forty
elementary school
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s, eight
middle schools and five
high schools.
Tony Sanders is the CEO as of August 2022.
Special programs
*Center House
*Central School Programs
*DREAM Academy, an alternative school
*High School Academy Program, a program for gifted students in High School
*Preschool Programs
*Radio station
WEPS (88.9
FM)
*School Within a School (SWAS) Program, a program for gifted students in 4th-8th Grade; also called Inquiry and Gifted Network for Ingenuity Talent and Exploration (IGNITE) Program
*
Planetarium/Observatory
Schools, alphabetically
See also
*
List of school districts in Illinois
References
{{School districts in Cook County, Illinois
School districts established in 1836
1836 establishments in Illinois