Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96

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Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 is a K-12 school district centered in the Lake County village of Buffalo Grove, Illinois. This district is composed of seven schools in total, or one kindergarten center, four elementary schools, and two middle schools; any students attending District 96 will ultimately attend Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. This district's kindergarten center is known as Willow Grove Kindergarten Center which, as its name suggests, serves only kindergarteners. Ivy Hall Elementary School educates those in and within grades one and five; Prairie Elementary School and Country Meadows Elementary School do the exact same. Kildeer Countryside Elementary School, the largest of the schools in terms of the student body, also serves all grades between one and five. Woodlawn Middle School and Twin Groves Middle School provide the next level of education, serving grades 6-8. As mentioned before, all students from this point on move forward to Stevenson High School District 125 for their last leg of precollegiate education. ^[1]^[2] The school superintendent is Dr. Thomas Many. ^[3] The mascot of Woodlawn Middle School is the wolf, while the mascot of Twin Grove Middle School is the kolt [sic]; in the elementary schools, the cougar is the mascot of Kildeer Elementary, the wildcat is the mascot of Ivy Hall Elementary, the cub is the mascot of Country Meadows Elementary, and the prairie dog is the mascot of Prairie Elementary.

In March 2007, five District 96 schools were elected by the Chicago Sun-Times as five of fifty of the best suburban schools in Chicagoland: Ivy Hall Elementary School, Prairie Elementary School, Kildeer Countryside Elementary School, Twin Grove Middle School, and Woodlawn Middle School. The former three listed were chosen as some of the fifteen best public schools in the county by Chicago Magazine in October 2006. In October 2007, Twin Groves was also certified as an official Blue Ribbon school. ^[4]