Enrollment
301
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COMM CONS SD 59·NCES 171377001713
Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School
265 Wellington Ave, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 · (847) 593-4388 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL301 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
241 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
34.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.2pp since 2023
Math
27.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 27.8% |
| 2023-24 | 20.8% | 21.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School
Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School's state test result (30.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School this school | 301 | 80.1% | 30.9% |
| Rupley Elementary School Elk Grove Village | 280 | 76.1% | 23.8% |
| Army Trail Elementary School Addison | 258 | 79.1% | 23.4% |
| Walt Whitman Elementary School Wheeling | 378 | 80.2% | 20.1% |
| Ardmore Elementary School Addison | 230 | 79.6% | 26.4% |
| Howe Elementary School Beach Park | 318 | 75.5% | 15.1% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #1,246 of 1,925 | #387 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #1,365 of 2,077 ▼ 243 | #423 of 829 ▼ 89 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,554 of 2,077 ▼ 14 | #557 of 829 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 301 | #1,531 of 2,419 | #635 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #102 of 2,035 | #59 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.4% | #1,121 of 2,042 | #421 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #506 of 2,132 | #347 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.6% | #587 of 1,461 | #328 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
301
-43 (-12%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 354
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 301 | 30.7 | 9.8:1 | 80% (241) |
| 2023-24 | 317 | 26.8 | 11.8:1 | 81% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 314 | 26.4 | 11.9:1 | 78% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 344 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 361 | 23.5 | 15.4:1 | 66% (239) |
| 2015-16 | 376 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 69% (261) |
| 2010-11 | 329 | 24 | 13.7:1 | 55% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 400 | 25 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 354 | 21 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (361 to 301); teachers up 31% (23.5 to 30.7).
About Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School
Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School is a small elementary school with an address in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The school's 301 students are in kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 21% lower than the average for elementary schools in Illinois, which is about 381.
The 15 schools of Comm Cons SD 59, including Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School, enroll 5,869 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School, with 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% White and 3% Asian. The county population is about 27% Hispanic. Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School's diversity index is 41%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 30.7 full-time positions, a ratio of 9.8:1. On average, elementary schools in Illinois have 13.9:1, compared with 9.8:1 here. Around 80% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Cook County averages 66%, lower than here.
allk12 grades Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School is 5.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School is located in Cook County, where the median household income is $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Besides Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School, Cook County has 1,405 other public schools.
The nearest public school is Salt Creek Elementary School, at about 0.7 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 48.8% proficiency; Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School posts 30.9%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is down 12% from 2020-21, when Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School had 344 students, to 2024-25, when it had 301.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Comm Cons SD 59
- Grove Jr High SchoolMiddle · 741 students
- Friendship Jr High SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- Holmes Jr High SchoolMiddle · 459 students
- Salt Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Clearmont Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- John Jay Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
Other schools in Elk Grove Village
- Elk Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,906 students
- Grove Jr High SchoolMiddle · 741 students
- Margaret Mead Junior High SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Adolph Link Elementary SchoolElementary · 652 students
- Adlai Stevenson Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Salt Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
Nearby schools
- Salt Creek Elementary School0.7 mi · 410
- Clearmont Elementary School1.1 mi · 408
- Elk Grove High School1.2 mi · 1,906
- Grove Jr High School1.2 mi · 741
- Ridge Family Center for Learning1.3 mi · 261
- Elmer H Franzen Intermediate School1.4 mi · 322
Frequently asked questions
About Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School?
Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School enrolls approximately 301 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School serve?
Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School?
Student demographics at Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School are roughly 19% White, 74% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School public or private?
Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Comm Cons SD 59.
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