• Queen Bee 2020 Components

    Queen Bee 2020 is a comprehensive project that increases the safety of students and community members, improves the educational program, and makes needed updates to our facilities.  Queen Bee 2020 will be funded largely from the lease revenue earned by leasing Pheasant Ridge School to AMITA Glenoaks Therapeutic Day School. Our instructional program will be streamlined so that our students will attend one of our Elementary Schools, Glen Hill or Americana, and all of our students will ultimately attend Glenside Middle School.  This will be accomplished by serving students in grades K-4 at one of the elementary schools and educating all students in grades 5-8 at our middle school. There will be no change in school boundaries or high school assignment as a result of the plan. Glen Hill students will ultimately enroll at Glenbard West High School and Americana students will ultimately enroll at Glenbard North High School.  The impact of Queen Bee 2020 for each school is summarized below.

     

    Glen Hill

    • Students will transition into a K-4 building and students will spend one more year at Glen Hill
    • Students will experience physical education each day in a new multipurpose gym to be built adjacent to the parking loop
    • The Parking Lot to the North of the building will be revised into a parking loop that will allow for curbside drop off and take the waiting traffic off of Bloomingdale Road during arrival and dismissal.  This will increase student, parent, and community safety.
    • The Library/Media Center will be updated as a result of receiving a capital grant from the State of Illinois
    • The playground will be moved closer to the building and improved as a result of receiving a capital grant from the State of Illinois

    Americana

    •  Americana will serve students in the existing Pheasant Ridge boundary in grades K-4.  
    • All current Americana students will attend Glenside Middle School next year as either a 5th or a 6th grade student
    • Students will experience physical education each day in a new multipurpose gym to be built adjacent to the parking loop
    • The Playground to the North of the building will be revised into a parking loop that will allow for curbside drop off and take the waiting traffic off of President or Fullerton Road during arrival and dismissal.  This will increase student, parent, and community safety.
    • The Library/Media Center will be updated as a result of receiving a capital grant from the State of Illinois
    • The playground will be moved closer to the building and improved as a result of receiving a capital grant from the State of Illinois

    Glenside Middle School

    •  Glenside Middle School will serve all students in our district in grades 5-8
    • The far west wing of the Middle School will be remodeled to meet the needs of our 5th grade students, teachers, and instructional program
    • A parking loop will be built to the rear of the building to provide a separate approach for parent drop off or pick up at arrival and dismissal.  This will increase safety by separating bus, car, and foot traffic in addition to bringing waiting traffic off of Fullerton and on to school district property.  
    • A 1700 square foot addition will be made between the current far west and cafeteria to accommodate our Project Lead The Way program for 5th grade students 
    • The middle school will be organized into two (2) teams of four (4) teachers per grade for a total of 8 teachers per grade level 
    • The Library/Media Center will be updated as a result of receiving a capital grant from the State of Illinois
    • Our Project Lead the Way STEM and Computing Classes will be moved next to one another and co-located with our Art and Foreign Language classrooms

    Pheasant Ridge

  • “The support of District 16 for this move is so appreciated and speaks to our longstanding relationship,” said Bruce Christian President and CEO of AMITA Health GlenOaks Hospital and Therapeutic Day School. “For many years, we have worked with District 16 and neighboring community school districts to serve students with special educational needs.”

     

    News Release: October 25, 2019