McHenry Community High School District 156

McHenry High School District 156 will host a job fair on Tuesday and Wednesday in an effort to fill several open positions, including instructional assistants and bus drivers.

By summer 2023, the city of McHenry plans to install 10 tiny shops as part of the Miller Point master plan. Small business owners are invited to rent these shops, now being built by area students, as a business incubator.

More than 50 local veterans participated in Honor Flight, which is a program that pays for veterans to travel around the country and see war memorials. Those veterans returned home Sunday and were honored by McHenry High School.

Students and a teacher from McHenry Community High School are set to join veterans on a three-day hop to Washington, D.C, as part of an Honor Flight. They will tour national monuments and hope to have students record the trip.

McHenry County school districts are seeing more students than ever enrolling in summer school, and while the pandemic continues to play a factor, district administrators said, the high attendance speaks to expanded opportunities overall during the summer season.

McHenry High School District 156 received a $2,500 donation from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4600 in McHenry raised through the post’s Queen of Hearts raffle.

McHenry's McCracken Field will have a turf surface and a new track installed this summer as part of the latest phase of improvements to District 156's athletic facilities

Students, teachers and principals reflect back on the challenges that came with the first full year back from COVID-19.

McHenry High School teacher Otto Corzo was getting set to teach his students some dances Friday when he was surprised with a statewide award for excellence in teaching.

Leadership Greater McHenry County announced its Youth Class of 2023, which pairs students from every high school in the county with a community member or Leadership Greater McHenry County alum.

A business teacher at Harvard High school started a business competition club that after just a few months, has grown into the largest club on campus.

Erin Harris teaches business at McHenry High School – in a classroom one floor above her father’s woodworking class. Her mother teaches preschool at Montini Catholic School in McHenry, and her sister is a teaching assistant at Johnsburg Junior High School.

Otto Corzo was selected as a 2022 finalist for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Golden Apple Foundation

McHenry School District 156 had its high school strength and conditioning program recognized by the National High School Strength Coaches Association.

McHenry High School District 156 will host a parent meeting next month to discuss plans for providing special education services to home-schooled, as well as parochial and private school students.