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Christa McAuliffe Elementary School News

Please join us for an informative parent evening discussing three very important issues affecting our community’s youth Vaping, Underage Drinking and Synthetic Marijuana Usage.

Fourth and fifth grade D140 athletes gathered for an afternoon of friendly competition at the District's annual track meet held on Wednesday, May 16th at Andrew High School.

Please join us as we discuss the effects of mental health and what we can do to as a community to maintain a positive and safe learning environment for our children and students.

As the school year draws to a close, we bid farewell to an outstanding group of fifth grade students.

Ten outstanding fifth-grade students from Kirby School District 140 recently received Awards of Excellence at the Illinois Principals Association’s Student Recognition Breakfast. Nominated by ...

On Thursday, May 3rd, over 400 guests participated in McAuliffe's water-themed STEAM Night. ead by Music teacher Mrs. Morrey, the event kicked off with ...

Grissom Middle School seventh grader Serena Naji won the District 140 Spelling Bee on May 2nd. Naji clinched the victory by correctly spelling “dialect”.

Student-athletes from Kirby School District 140 excelled at the Area E Special Olympics Track & Field Spring Games held at Thornwood High School in early May.

In order to qualify for a discount on registration fees, you must return your student's packet to your home school by Friday, May 4th.

Best of luck to the sixteen KSD 140 athletes participating in the Special Olympics Track & Field Spring Games at Thornwood High School on May 5th!

Summer Academy classes will be available to incoming kindergarten through sixth grade KSD 140 students during the month of August. For a detailed description of our course offerings ...

Friday, May 4th is a START Day. Elementary schools will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. and middle schools will be dismissed at 1:20 p.m

Thanks to our first-grade Daisy Troop for helping us keep McAuliffe in tip-top shape! The troop participated in ...

Student Council hosted McAuliffe families at a Play for a Cure Game Day event on Thursday, April 12th. Students were able to play ...

Grissom and Prairie View middle schools will be offering Summer Sports Camps for students in grades 5-8.

As the culmination to our National Library Week festivities, Author Aaron Blabey visited McAuliffe School on Friday, April 13th.

Teams of third, fourth and fifth grade students recently faced off in our annual Battle of the Books, a quiz show type of competition meant to test literary knowledge.

Please join us at our KSD 140 Parent Night: Helping Children Learn Over the Summer featuring Dr. Margaret Carroll.

Just a reminder ... Wednesday, April 11th is a START Day. Elementary schools will be dismissed at 12:30 pm and middle schools will be dismissed at 1:20 pm.

McAuliffe kicked off an All-School Book Read with an assembly where students guessed the name of the book they would be reading...Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.

We really enjoyed visiting with everyone who stopped by our booth at the Discover Tinley Expo on Saturday, April 7th.  It was wonderful to hear ...

Congratulations to our sixteen fantastic fourth and fifth grade spellers who competed in McAuliffe's annual Spelling Bee on April 6th

McAuliffe students celebrated National Library Week by creating book-inspired peeps dioramas. Students and their families ...

KSD 140's Spring Break is Monday, March 26th through Monday, April 2nd. We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Tuesday, April 3rd. Enjoy!

KSD 140’s middle school musicians were in perfect harmony at the Illinois Grade School Music Association (IGSMA) District Band contest at Manhattan Junior High School on March 17th. The Cadet Band, Concert Band and Symphonic Band each earned Division I “Superior” ratings ...

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