List of Schools with Masks Optional

Illinois school district are deciding today whether to continue with mask mandates for students and teachers or ditch them following a judges ruling on Friday.

Out of 850 school district in Illinois, more than 145 districts have filed a lawsuit against Governor JB Pritzker’s mask mandate for schools.

The Joliet Diocese is requiring all catholic schools within the diocese to continue to wear masks including Joliet Catholic Academy.

Joliet School District 204 – masks required
Joliet School District 86 – masks required

Lockport District 205  is maintaining their mask mandate with the exception of students whose parents were part of the lawsuit, in which case they don’t have to wear a mask.

Masks must still be worn on school and activity buses per the Centers for Disease Control’s order.

MASK OPTIONAL SCHOOLS:

Christian Life Schools
Lombard District 44
Lombard D88
Sandwich District 430
Pineland in Burlington
Morton District 709
Schaumburg Christan School
Quincy Public School
Calumet District 132
Highland District 5
District 17 Channonhan
Arlington Heights District 25 & D214
Carthage Illini West
Pleasant Hill District 3
Gibson City Middle School
Waukegan
Frankfort
New Lenox
Wheatland
NPD 117
Plainfield D 202
Bellville
Minooka 201
N. Palisades D 117
Elmhurst D 205
Windsor CUSD 1
Auburn D10
Desplaines D62
Wheaton D200
Addison D4
Manhattan D114
D214
Winnetka
Barrington D220
D92
D211
Milton Pope
Amboy
Yorkville
Morris
Seneca
Mason Verona
Kinsman
Cornell
Modena D159

Bethany Lutheran Naperville
D33c
Valleyville (buses require masks)
Bureau Valley
El Paso-Gridley Unit 11
Antioch
Barry Western
Camp Pointe Central
Quincy
Columbia
Waterloo
Hutsonville
Vandalia
Illini West
Pleasant Hill
Red Bud
Highland
Wheeling D44
Christian Life Schools
Pikeland
CUSD 10
Sandwich D430
Schaumburg Christian
Arlington Heights
Saint Timothy
Albers
Coal City School
Lake Forest
D67
D115
Wheaton Academy
Clifton Central
Gibson City
Central CUSD 4
Ports D202
My. Zion
Carthage Elementary
Frankfort D157
Congerville-Eureka-Goodfield D140
Flora
Timothy Christian
New Lenox D122
Highland Christian Life
Prospect Heights D23
Leyden
Windsor
Auburn D10
Athens
Knoxville
Mount Prospect D57
Herscher
Manteno
Valmeyer
D186
The Diocese of Springfield
Father McGivney Catholic HS
St. Boniface
Ramsey Community Unit Schools
Triad
Pay son CUSD 1
Dunlap
Prairie Central Unit 8
NPD117
D211
Wilmington Community SD 209U
Bellville Diocese
Valleyview
Romeoville
Bolingbrook
Southwestern
Pleasant Plains
Desplains SD 62
D14
D1 Astoria
D92
Orland Park
Stevenson
Buffalo Grove
Okaw Valley
Wesclin
Homer 33-C
Hickory Hills
Hilsboro
Lexington
Sparta (mixed responses)
LWA feeder schools D210
Princeton Elementary & High Schools
D129
Crystal Lake D47 & 155
West Central CUSD 235
United CUSD 304
Rockford Diocese
Indian Creek
Kerkstra Elementary-Osk Forest
OSS & Route Catholic
Hume Shiloh CUSD 1
Marshall SD 2c
D224
D155
Massac Community HS
Elm wood 322
Lemont HS
Friendship Middle School-Mt. Prospect
New Berlin CUSD 16
LeRoy CUSD 2
Paris Unit 4 & 95 & Cooperative HS
Tripod D176
D47
Hey worth CUSD 4
Bureau Valley D340
Rockridge
Erie
Morrison
Fisher
Brimgield D309
Saints Peter & Paul -Cary
Bloomington D87
Unit 5
Genoa Kingston D424