Joliet Public Schools District 86

Forest Park Individual Education (I.E.) School has been named an Illinois state-level School of Character by Character.org. Forest Park is the only school in the state to receive t...

Congratulations to the Dirksen, Gompers, Hufford, and Washington Junior High Students who will be competing in the Science Fair at the District STEM Extravaganza on Saturday, Febru...

Congratulations to the following Joliet Public Schools District 86 students who were named Students of the Month for January. T.E. Culbertson Elementary Alexander Cervantes...

Joliet Public Schools District 86 recently launched the second year of a district-wide Joliet Reads “One District, One Book” reading campaign for all elementary school-aged student...

Student and staff safety remain our number one priority in our school district. Our mission statement “ Joliet Public Schools District 86 provides a high-quality, inclusive, a...

After 17 rounds of spelling, Lynne Thigpen Elementary School fifth-grade student Natalia Hernandez won the Joliet Public Schools District 86 Elementary School Spelling Bee Contest...

Congratulations to Gompers Junior High students and staff for raising $1,600 for Pink Heals Joliet Area Chapter during their second annual Students vs. Faculty Basketball Fundraise...

Congratulations to Taft Elementary School fourth-grade students in Anne Flaherty, Patricia Ledbetter, and Caitlin Ratajczak’s classrooms for coordinating a school-wide sock collec...

Happy New Year! I hope you had a safe and relaxing Winter Break. Spending time with family and friends is always special and I thoroughly enjoyed some quality time away from work t...

Congratulations to Veronica Hatch’s fifth-grade students at Isaac Singleton Elementary who are the first Joliet Public Schools District 86 classroom to be official TECHsperts! T...

Congratulations to the Joliet Public Schools District 86 students who were named to the honor roll list for the 1 st Trimester of the 2024-2025 school year. The entire list is ava...

Congratulations to our Gompers, Hufford, and Washington Junior High students who performed at the Illinois Association of School Boards, Illinois Association of School Administrato...

Congratulations to the following Joliet Public Schools District 86 students who were named Students of the Month for November. T.E. Culbertson Elementary A’Marionna Adams, N...

Congratulations to these Carl Sandburg students who were invited to help City of Joliet Mayor D'Arcy light the Christmas tree at the Joliet City Center Partnership Light up the Ho...

Joliet Public Schools District 86 received the Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (COE) award from the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO). ...

Congratulations to the eight Dirksen and Gompers Junior High School Student Athletes who participated in the Illinois Elementary School Association Boys State Cross-Country Meet i...

Joliet Public Schools District 86 hosted two groundbreaking ceremonies on Thursday, Sept. 12 to mark the start of construction on two junior high schools – the new Gompers Junior ...

Fifth-grade A.O. Marshall Elementary School teacher Maida Cornelio-Sauseda had a surprise visit from the Chicago Bears official mascot Staley Da Bear, representatives from the Chi...