Beginning July 29, 2019, Elmhurst District 205 began to use a new online payment system called PushCoin. Parents and guardians of D205 students will be able to fund their students’ lunch accounts. Parents and guardians of York students will be able to pay their high school fees through PushCoin, in addition to funding their students' lunch accounts.

The final calendar of the 2018-19 school year was approved by the Board of Education at their April 23 meeting.

A group of 5th grade students have spent months filming, editing and producing a documentary about instruction at Hawthorne School and dreams for the future.