Barrington Community Unit School District 220 Calendar 2026-2027

Barrington Community Unit School District 220 operates one prekindergarten-through-twelfth-grade system across territory in Cook, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties. Eight elementary schools feed two middle schools and then one high school. Its name suggests a single community, but the actual boundary crosses county and municipal lines, so eligibility and home-school assignment must be checked by exact residence.

Barrington 220’s language pathways add another layer to that geographic structure. The Chinese immersion sequence begins in kindergarten and continues through the secondary grades, forming a long-term course of study that reaches well beyond elementary enrichment. The Spanish dual-language program also starts in kindergarten and develops bilingual instruction across the elementary years.

Neither pathway is created automatically by living near a program school. Admission follows the district’s current application and placement process, depends on available seats, and may involve a campus outside the child’s ordinary neighborhood assignment. Program locations follow kindergarten-entry cohorts and may change annually; the current program notice must be read alongside the attendance map.

Neighborhood students usually move from an assigned elementary school to one of the two middle schools and then Barrington High School. Immersion and dual-language students may use a program site and cohort route before joining the larger secondary system. The address map establishes the ordinary school sequence; the current program notice establishes the application-based route.