Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 lead school nurse Lisa Sabatino announced on Mar. 11 that the district will again offer a Community Outreach CPR class for parents and students to attend together. The spring session is scheduled for Thursday, March 26, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Renfro Elementary School.
The training will include instruction in CPR, automated external defibrillator (AED) use, and choking resuscitation. The course is open to all students in grades four through twelve along with their parent or guardian. Students must be accompanied by at least one parent or guardian to participate, and each session is limited to a maximum of 30 participants.
There is a $15 fee per person, which covers the cost of the American Trauma Event Management layperson certification card and resource book. Additional information about registration can be found in flyers available in both English and Spanish.
The Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 serves Madison and St. Clair counties, including schools such as Caseyville Elementary School, Collinsville High School, Collinsville Middle School, Dorris Intermediate School, Jefferson Elementary School, John A. Renfro Elementary School, Kreitner Elementary School, Maryville Elementary School, Summit Elementary School, Twin Echo Elementary School, and Webster Elementary School according to the Illinois Report Card.
The district had an enrollment of 6,169 students during the 2019-2020 school year and provides education from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade according to the Illinois Report Card. It spent $16,872 per student in 2020 for a total expenditure of $104 million according to the Illinois Report Card.
According to state data from the Illinois State Board of Education, Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 has a teaching staff of 418 with an average salary of $60,392 before pension contributions; women make up eighty-one percent of teachers while men account for nineteen percent. No teachers had more than ten absences in a school year.
Demographically, the district’s student body is fifty-six percent White, fourteen point one percent Black, twenty-four point one percent Hispanic, and zero point five percent Asian according to ISBE data. In terms of attendance issues during the 2020 school year, there were one hundred ninety-one chronically truant students enrolled—a rate of three point one percent—compared with a statewide average truancy rate of nine point six percent as reported by ISBE.
