Barrington is a United States village in Cook County, Illinois and Lake County, Illinois. The population was 10,168 at the 2000 census. Barrington is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The village's motto is "a great place to live, work and play."[1]
Located approximately 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Chicago, the area features wetlands, forest preserves, parks and horse trails in a country-suburban setting. The Barrington area ZIP code, 60010, is the seventh wealthiest ZIP code in the country among areas with a population of 20,000 or more.[2] The area includes the villages or towns of Barrington, Barrington Hills, Lake Barrington, North Barrington, South Barrington, and Tower Lakes, as well as small portions of Carpentersville, Deer Park, Hoffman Estates, and Inverness.
Education
The village of Barrington serves as the geographic center of the 72-square-mile (190 km2) Barrington Community Unit School District 220. The district features one high school, Barrington High School, for grades 9-12 and two middle school campuses for grades 6-8, Station Campus and Prairie Campus. The district administers eight elementary schools:With the exception of Sunny Hill, all Barrington-area publicelementary schools received the 2008 Academic Excellence Award from theIllinois State Board of Education.[67] Barrington also features a Catholic school for kindergarten through eighth grade, St. Anne School, which in 2006 the U.S. Department of Education had recognized as a Blue Ribbon School.[68]The district administers an early childhood center, Woodland Early Learning Center, located in Carpentersville, Illinois. District 220 also plans to build a second early learning center adjacent to Barrington Middle School's Prairie Campus, with construction to be completed by July 2010.[69]