With administration move, Algonquin School District 300 identity changes

ALGONQUIN As School District 300 administrators adjust to a new office this week, residents within the district may need to adjust how they identify their school system.

After being stationed in Carpentersville for about three decades, administrators on Monday started the incremental move from their temporary headquarters at Hampshire High School to a new $3.9 million administration building near Jacobs High School in Algonquin.

Officially, the Illinois State Board of Education will continue to recognize the district as Community Unit School District 300 (CUSD 300). But with other CUSD 300s located in Du Quoin, Rockridge and Sullivan, many within the district community know it as Carpentersville District 300.

A move into Algonquin changes the informal identifier, board Vice President Joe Stevens said. Residents, however, should quickly catch on to the change, he said.

When we moved everybody to Hampshire temporarily, it wasnt a big deal, Stevens said. Nobody seemed to have difficulties with it. They understood.

In early 2014, administrators vacated the former Central Office in Carpentersville to allow construction crews to renovate it into a permanent building for the districts alternative Oak Ridge school.

The administration temporarily relocated to Hampshire, as construction began on a new two-story office building near Jacobs.

Despite administrators move into McHenry County, the location change doesnt mean the district is cutting ties with Carpentersville, said Superintendent Fred Heid. The districts boundaries still span three other counties, including Cook, DeKalb and Kane.

We are a community school district and serve our entire district, Heid said. We continue to serve and support all of our students and families.

Officials have said the larger building will be more centrally located within the district and house all administrative departments for the first time.

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With administration move, Algonquin School District 300 identity changes