The National Merit® Scholarship Program named Matthew Kreiger, a Cary-Grove senior, as a 2022 National Merit® Semifinalist. Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and are the highest-scoring students in each state, including the highest-scoring entrants in each state.

Eight students representing District 155’s four high schools participated in the American Legion’s ‘A Day to Remember’ ceremony on September 11 at Union Cemetery in Crystal Lake. The day marked the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

In District 155, 89 percent of graduates from the class of 2021 are continuing their education at four-year universities, two-year universities, technical/vocational schools, or trade and apprenticeship programs. The class of 2021 includes 1,311 graduates who earned $15,162,993 in scholarships.

3D printers once used to make PPE equipment during the pandemic were recently donated to District 155 for students to design and build their own projects in drafting and engineering classes. At the beginning of the pandemic, Scott Karch, a parent of two Cary-Grove graduates and community member, raised funds from friends to purchase 3D printers, and he used them to make ear straps for masks for frontline workers.