Led by Superintendent Edward Tivador, District 30 includes two elementary schools and one middle school. Curriculum includes math, science, social studies, language arts, music, physical education, and art. The district also participates in "Character Counts," a national character education program that emphasizes six basic values: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
Keshet was founded 28 years ago by a group of Jewish parents who were concerned about the futures of their children who had special needs. Today, Keshet provides community-based educational, recreational and vocational programs to children, teens and young adults with developmental disabilities. The school's goal is to enable them to participate as fully as possible in mainstream society.
Students of Keshet share lunch periods, prayer services and other activities with children attending the Sager Solomon Schechter Day and Middle Schools, all housed in the same building on Dundee Road. Keshet's administrative offices are located at 617 Landwehr Road.
Principal Christopher Finch heads up Westmoor, one of three elementary schools in District 28. Instruction focuses on literacy, writing and math, with additional classwork in social studies and science. Beginning in third grade, students may participate in orchestra, and in fourth grade they may join the school band. Fifth graders study French or Spanish. Unique to Westmoor is Skillsurfing, a program designed to teach social emotional literacy and prevent bullying. Skillsurfing is taught in every classroom twice a week.
Children's Learning Path Montessori School's programs are designed to encourage self-expression and allow children to learn at their own rate. The curriculum includes music lessons and Spanish classes. The school offers morning and full-day preschool, and full-day kindergarten classes. An eight-week summer program teaches drama, arts and crafts, nature walks and gardening.
Headed by Principal Corrine Hehn, Hickory Point is Northbrook's "primary center," serving kindergarteners through second-graders. As part of district 27's Project 2010, construction workers added six new classrooms, a Learning Garden and new office space to the original building. The renovation was completed in 2009.
Rev. Robert P. Heinz currently presides over St. Norbert parish, which includes more than 2,100 families. The church began in 1899 as a mission in Techny, then a rural outpost of Chicago, and was relocated to Northbrook fifty years later. St. Norbert offers masses on Sundays at 7:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am and 5:30pm, as well as daily.
District 31's original boundaries were based on plots of farmland. Today, the school district serves students from Glenview, Northbrook and unincorporated Northfield Township. Service learning is integrated into the curriculum at all grade levels, meaning that students participate in a different community service project every year.
Dayspring Montessori School embraces the teaching methods of Maria Montessori, an educational pioneer who opened her first school in 1907. It offers pre-school, toddler and kindergarten classes meeting 3 to 5 days each week. Tours are available for all interested. Open enrollment is based on classroom space.