Strategic Priorities

The District has established strategic design teams for each of the strategic priorities. The design teams are actively meeting to develop work areas within each strategic priority, the objectives associated with each work area, which will lead to specific tasks and timelines supporting the objectives.

The work from these design teams is expected to be reviewed with the Board of Education in early 2023. With the support of the Board, the District will begin implementation of the strategic plan at that time.

Until the design teams have concluded their work, and it has been approved by the Board, with the exception below, the objectives are not fully defined and thus do not have a measurable cost for all objectives.

A current project that is underway which the stewardship design team will be folding into its work, is an assessment of the existing fine and performing arts space at Barrington High School. In 2019, the community voted down a $185M building bond referendum. This failed referendum included $13.5M for a fine and performing arts addition. Feedback from the community regarding failure of the referendum indicated that the fine and performing arts space concept was not developed sufficiently to garner a majority of support within the community. In preparing for what was ultimately a successful $147M building bond referendum, the Board of Education pledge to use $264,324 to develop a design to meet the fine and performing arts needs of the district. That design work is currently underway and the District expects three design alternatives to be developed with cost estimates by the end of this fiscal year. At the current time, it is unknown whether the design alternatives will include only