Delavan Jr High School

907 Locust Street

School District

Delavan Community Unit 703
Grade

7-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:14
Type

public

School Map for Delavan Community Unit School District 703

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on April 05, 2022

Great opportunities with great teachers. Students are one to one Chromebooks. Lots of opportunity for participation in extracurricular activities.
Submitted by parent on February 07, 2014

Outdated computers, somewhat dated curriculum at times. Makes up for it with great teachers, lots of opportunities for extracurricular activities. The principal is a bit of an idiot and mostly unhelpful, such as in a situation where a (notably disliked) teacher ripped up a student's homework for entirely unjustified reasons and he tried to justify it despite knowing she was in the wrong. Overall the teachers are helpful, generally good people, and it's not a bad school. You could do a lot worse.
Submitted by parent on September 06, 2013

Wonderful school...although you could not tell it from the previous review :-) It sounds like a lot of sour grapes to me. Someone came for one year, probably after having problems at a previous school, then moved on to likely have problems with another school. I doubt the issues are with any of the schools, but rather with the student and his/her family. The building is old, but they work very hard at maintaining it. For me, the physical structure (and the salt in the cafeteria) are not nearly as important as the educational experience. We could not be happier with that element. The school is small and differentiated education can be offered to students either below or above the norm. The principal and the teachers know every student and how to best accommodate that student. You will be hard pressed to find a more caring group of individuals they are passionate about their students and dedicated to providing a first-rate education. The graduates are very well prepared for continuing their education at the college level. Five starts all the way in my book!
Submitted by parent on January 29, 2013

This school was really a terrible experience. The school building in general was just dreadful, the floors are all cracked, same with the walls. Now to move on to the schools lunch/breakfast. The lunch/breakfast was and is worst than the actually school building, they took away salt entirely from the cafeteria, the milk (most of the time) is passed its expiration date, the food is cold or tastes like cardboard. Worst of all is the teachers or the principles. The teachers are completely unfair and yell at you when your not even doing anything even close to wrong. The principle is 10x worse than the teachers, i can't even explain how bad he is. - Thanks for reading