Spanning more than 57 square miles in the Fox River Valley, District 303 serves more than 13,000 students from St. Charles and several surrounding communities. It has a dozen elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools. For the 2009-2010 school year, the district ran a balanced budget of a little more than $168 million.
Officials see the district as having a tradition of academic excellence in both its programs and faculty.