Alden Hebron Elem School

Located at 11915 Price Rd, in Hebron, Illinois, Alden Hebron Elem School is an intimate elementary school that instructs 210 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Alden Hebron SD 19. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Alden Hebron Elem School sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

Alden Hebron SD 19 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 421 students; Alden Hebron Elem School is among them.

Demographically, Alden Hebron Elem School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with McHenry County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Alden Hebron Elem School lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Alden Hebron Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Alden Hebron Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 54.6%.

In the broader community, McHenry County reports that the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across McHenry County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), Alden Hebron Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Alden-Hebron High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Alden Hebron Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alden Hebron Elem School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Alden Hebron Elem School's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 217 (now 210). Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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