Immaculate Conception Parish holds Mass in the chapel at 5:15 p.m. Saturday, and at 7:30, 9 and 11 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. Sunday. Mass is held weekdays in the church at 6:15 and 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, and at 8 a.m. Saturday.
IC is the oldest Catholic parish in Elmhurst. As early as 1862, the church was established as a mission; it became a parish in 1876.
Immaculate Conception Grade School was founded in 1900 with 40 students in eight grades and staffed by two sisters and a postulant. High school classrooms were added in 1936. It was the first co-educational Catholic high school in DuPage County. It graduated its first class in 1940.
Today, the ICHS Knights participate in football, volleyball, golf and cross country, along with a plethora of clubs and organizations.
The parish that began with 20 families is now made up of more than 2,400 households.
The nerve center for Elmhurst Unit District 205 is located at 162 S. York St., where the district's administration offices are housed. The district services more than 8,000 students primarily from Elmhurst, but students also reside in small portions of Oak Brook, Bensenville and Addison. The district maintains eight elementary schools, three middle schools, one high school and an early childhood education center.
District administrators include Superintendent David Pruneau, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Brad Hillman, Assistant Superintendent for Finance Chris Whelton, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services Meg Schnoor, Director of Technology David Smith and Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Charles Johns.
The district manages more than 1.5 million square feet of building space. Teachers total 530 and have an average experience level of 11 years. The average teacher salary is $68,424 and the average per pupil expenditure is $11,793. The district manages an operating budget of nearly $114 million.
Montessori-Wilson Academy offers academics for early childhood. It has a morning and an afternoon session for your convenience and is open to the public. It welcomes students ages two to six years old.
Located in Elmhurst, Top Driver is a driving school which offers a wide variety of driver education classroom and behind-the-wheel courses for teenagers, adults and corporate fleets. For information on class schedules and rates, be sure to call the telephone number or visit the website provided.
Established in 1970, Raggedy Anne Learning Center is located at the corner of York Street and Church Street in Elmhurst. Offering education programs for children ages two to six, the center teaches the children how to share and work in groups.
Visitation Parish, in the Diocese of Joliet, was founded in 1953. The nine-acre site includes the church, school, convent, rectory, chapel and gymnasium.
The parish is undergoing a major renovation to update buildings and add much-needed space to prepare for future generations. Renovations include replacing Madonna Hall with a new Parish Center, modernizing the school and creating safer pathways for children, creating handicap accessibility, increasing meeting space to support parish ministries and programs — all with as little disruption as possible in the day-to-day life at the parish.
Trinity Academy of Irish Dance is a prestigious dance school and training program with locations based around Illinois and Wisconsin, including one located in Elmhurst. For more than 30 years, the academy has provided students and audiences with inspiring performances and special programs. The academy offers a wide range of class options for students, including solo and extracurricular classes such as the river program, county program and province program, as well as the Trinity Performance Troupe.
Teachers offer students professional lessons in dance as well as sportsmanship, and also provides community outreach services and summer programs. Over the years, dancers from Trinity have earned 32 world titles and have been featured on shows including “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Good Morning America” and “The Martha Stewart Show.” Students are welcome to try a free class to see if the academy is right for them.
Salt Creek Primary School is one of the schools in Salt Creek Elementary District 48, which serves students from Elmhurst, Villa Park, Oak Brook and Oakbrook Terrace. Salt Creek Primary, with a student enrollment of about 150 is the only one of the district's three schools located in Elmhurst. Salt Creek serves children in preschool through first grade. It also is home to classes for students with visual impairments. The school offers a hot lunch program. Staff includes a full-time special education teacher and reading specialist, and programs include speech/language therapy and English as a second language. The school also has a library media center and computer lab with 13 computers.