Boys team places third.
Despite failures in AYP at five district schools, Scott Wakely highlights academic growth.
Team wins national meet two years in a row.
District data reveals five of the district's nine schools failed to meet AYP in at least one area this year.
Eight music students excelled at a competition last month.
The girls team and two members of the boys team are heading to nationals.
The girls recently made memory boxes for Bickford Memory Care Center in Oswego.
Amanda Morong, a Yorkville High School teacher, had to put her wedding plans on hold to fight a cancer diagnosis.
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Organizers hope the third annual event will raise $15,000 for classroom technology and educational extras.
Circle Center Grade School hosted its first Math Night Monday to show parents the Common Core aligned curriculum.
The new scoreboard, located on the Yorkville Middle School football field, will be used by Dist. 115 as well as Yorkville Youth Tackle Football for practices and sporting events.
Adam Zbrozek joins more than 40 new staff members in District 115 for the 2012-2013 school year.
Regional Superintendent Paul Nordstrom said school attendance in Grundy and Kendall was already more than 90 percent.
Enrollment is up 1 percent this year, according to a news release from Yorkville Community Unit School District 115.
Two Yorkville High School athletes visited 25 classrooms at Circle Center Grade School on Friday as a special incentive.
Students and adult mentors will compete in their first regional robotics competition in March.
District 115 crews are clearing snow from building sites but leaders expect to have class Friday, Supt. Scott Wakeley said.
Yorkville Middle School prominated, do-si-doed, and spun Friday in a schoolwide Square Dance.
Circle Center Grade School parent Julie Page is asking people to vote in an online contest hosted by Box Tops for Education.
Yorkville Intermediate School 5th graders read to the preschoolers after collecting 1,279 used books in an annual drive.