A unified school district (in the states of Arizona, California, Kansas and Oregon) or unit school district (in Illinois), in the United States of America, is a school district that generally includes and operates both primary schools ( kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high schools (grades 9–12) under the same district control.
3-560: Elgin Area School District U46 , often referred to as "U-46", is a unit school district headquartered in Elgin , Kane County, Illinois . Covering 90 square miles (230 km), the district serves portions of eleven communities in the northwest suburbs of Chicago in Cook , DuPage and Kane Counties. School District U-46 serves over 40,000 children in grades preK-12. The district ranks as
6-477: The same as consolidated or union school districts , which are generally formed by the consolidation of multiple school districts of the same type. In Kansas, the unified school districts developed after legislation passed in 1962 that was intended to reduce the number of rural school districts. After the law's passage, the number of districts in Kansas dropped dramatically. In 1947, there were over 3,000 districts. After
9-681: The second largest in Illinois with forty elementary schools , eight middle schools and five high schools . Tony Sanders is the CEO as of August 2022. Unified school district This distinction is predominant in states where elementary school districts and high school districts are, or were, generally separate. The Los Angeles Unified School District is a major example of a unified school district in California. In California and Illinois, and possibly other states, unified or unit school districts are not
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