Unit 5

The Unit 5 school board on Wednesday approved a roughly $180,000, three-year contract with ParentSquare to be the district’s universal communications platform.

Eugene Field School in Normal hosts the Unit 5 transitional services program. Teachers and parents are eager for students to have an updated, more accessible space.

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This marks the first time a Unit 5 mock trial team is competing at the National High School Mock Trial Championship.

Students and staff at Normal Community High School returned home Tuesday after a call broadly threatening the school prompted an emergency response.

Families of Normal Community High School students are now being permitted to pick up their children after an unspecified threat led to the cancellation of classes on Tuesday.

The students and staff of Normal Community West High School surprised the school principal as they celebrated her win of a leadership excellence award.

McLean County prosecutors said Friday that a 43-year-old Unit 5 junior high school teacher made sexually suggestive remarks to a 13-year-old girl last year. He faces charges of grooming.

Normal Police say Brandon Knapp, 43, of Hudson, was indicted Wednesday by a McLean County grand jury. Knapp, who taught at Chiddix Junior High School in Normal, was placed on paid leave in January as police investigated reports of alleged misconduct.

Stan Gozur, newly elected president of the Unit 5 school board, said he is pleased with the outcome of the district's enrollment study that concluded that neither Carlock Elementary nor Glenn Elementary schools should be closed.