The boundary lines, of our Beach Park School District, hold within them an imprint of the past. An awareness, of the people and events before us, allows us the opportunity to both learn from and connect to things long gone. Historical information and artifacts mixed with a little imagination may be as close as we will ever get to actual time travel, so take a moment to look back, as Beach Park Community Consolidated School District #3 moves forward, enjoy!

Vision: To be a nationally recognized district focused on continuous improvement, growth, and achievement.

Mission: In partnership with our diverse community, we are committed to developing lifelong learners and productive citizens by fostering academic and social growth.

OUR HISTORY

It's hard to imagine now but from this area to Green Bay was generally considered its own section of the country as roads and non-native settlements were minimal. What life was like for the native Potawatomi tribes that lived here before 1838 we can only imagine based upon the accounts of early immigrant settlers and documented artifacts, of which there are many, in the Newport region of our district. On Sept. 26, 1833, the Potawatomi signed a treaty ceding to the U.S. all their lands in Wisconsin and Illinois, including what is now Lake County, for about $1 million in the second of two "Treaties of Chicago".

Present Day: Time Marches On
Hold on to your seats time travelers. Original Howe got taken down, but the namesake survives as it takes the place of "Beach School" like the name "Oak Crest" moved from what is now "Kenneth Murphy" to what was "Beach Park School". "Bonnie Brook Elementary School" and "North Prairie Elementary School" were both sold. Are you keeping up? "Kenneth Murphy Junior High" turns into "Kenneth Murphy Elementary School" to join the three others; "Howe Elementary School" (formerly Beach School, aka Little Beach), "Oak Crest Elementary School" (formerly Beach Park School, aka Big Beach) and "Newport Elementary School and the new "Beach Park Middle School" is built on Green Bay Road, a little north of the site of the first one room wooden school building that sold for fifty dollars so many years ago. Got it? And although housing complexes, subdivisions and small business now take the place of what used to be primarily woodland, prairie and farm fields "way North" of Chicago and "way South" of Milwaukee, time marches on for us now, on the same ground as those before, here, in Beach Park Community Consolidated School District #3.