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Evanston/Skokie School District 65

school district in Cook County, Illinois

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16992798 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 is a school district headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, north of Chicago, United States. The district serves Evanston and Skokie, operating elementary schools, middle schools, and K–8 schools.

Schools

K–8 schools

There are two selective enrollment schools in the district.

Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School (Evanston)

Middle schools

Chute Middle School (Evanston)

Haven Middle School (Evanston)

Nichols Middle School (Evanston)

Elementary schools

Dawes Elementary School (Evanston)

Dewey Elementary School (Evanston)

Foster Elementary School (Evanston)

Lincoln Elementary School (Evanston)

Lincolnwood Elementary School (Evanston)

Oakton Elementary School (Evanston)

Orrington Elementary School (Evanston)

Walker Elementary School (Skokie)

Washington Elementary School (Evanston)

Willard Elementary School (Evanston)

Early childhood

Joseph E. Hill (JEH) Education Center (Evanston)

Also one of the headquarters in the district.

Editorial summary

“Evanston/Skokie School District 65” enters the record as school district in Cook County, Illinois. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Evanston, Skokie and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 127-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Evanston, Skokie and School.
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Why this record matters

“Evanston/Skokie School District 65” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Evanston, Skokie and School provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16992798. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Evanston/Skokie School District 65” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.