214 Education Foundation

John Hersey High School held an inclusive basketball game as part of its homecoming festivities. Sixty-five students in the Career Life Skills program played in the fourth annua...

Around 180 choral students from across District 214 participated in this year’s Voices of 214 Festival, sponsored by Arts Unlimited. They took part in an all-day clinic at Elk G...

As a junior at Buffalo Grove High School, Shruti Mukhopadhyay was thinking about her future—in college and beyond. She was interested in pursuing an engineering degree, maybe spec...

Vasyl Mattichuk wanted to become a U.S. citizen. “I was a young man from Ukraine who had always dreamed of living in the United States,” he said. Fascinated by American culture an...

Mom was a music education professor; Dad was a music teacher and band director. Dad’s idea of fun during family road trips was to quiz their three young sons on the differences ...

For reasons that no longer matter so much, Alex Mendoza dropped out of high school. “But I knew I couldn’t be fooling around. I knew I needed my high school diploma to get a bette...

District 214 families and staff are invited to Tee Up for 214, an evening of fun and community spirit in support of the District 214 Education Foundation. This year’s event takes ...

Wheeling High School is hosting the 55th Annual Chicagoland Marching Band Festival on Saturday, September 16, 2023. It is the longest consecutive running marching band festival in...

Jeanette Huerta graduated from Elk Grove High School in 2015. Several years later, after a disappointing freshman year at college, two separate year-long stints with the Army Nati...

On August 17, the team of world religions teachers from District 214, led by Prospect High School’s John Camardella, made a presentation to the Parliament of the World’s Religions...

District 214 students are making a splash through summer internships. From firefighting, to fashion, and even herpetology, students are getting a jumpstart to finding their future...

From left: The Lilac Laser team winners of the ComEd EV race from Saturday, July 29 featured Rachel Chen, Tabitha Woods, Elizabeth Meza, Ariel Gray and Vivienne DeRosa. (Photo by ...

Ricky Castro’s Oasis summer camp has now come full circle. Since 2015, Castro has run a summer camp at the Oasis Mobile Home Park. Located in unincorporated Des Plaines, the Oa...

District 214's Education Pathway is preparing students for teaching careers. Ed Academy is the Capstone course for seniors that integrates dual credit coursework with internship...

District 214's Veterinary Science program has grown by leaps and bounds since its creation five years ago. The Agriculture Career Pathway, housed at Rolling Meadows High School,...

District 214 is celebrating 10 years of summer musicals with the production of Mean Girls: High School Version . This funny new musical is based on the 2004 movie of the same n...

William Baysingar and Meghan Mrowicki are the 2023 recipients of High School District 214’s Howard Lester Awards. The awards are presented annually to one male and one female seni...

Julia Olson, Rolling Meadows High School Julia Olson of Rolling Meadows High School, a two-year drum major with the Mustangs marching band, and an honors performer in jazz ba...

(From left) John Hersey High School students Alex Masztak, Rachel Rafik, Miguel Aenlle and Alex Strugacz present their app EasyMeal at the flagship Apple Store on Michigan Avenue....

The 2nd Annual Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month Celebration and Collaborate was held at John Hersey High School on May 18th, 2023. The theme was Advancing ...