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Which teacher or staff member at Anderson Elem School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
460
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST CHARLES CUSD 303·NCES 173717003851
Anderson Elementary School
35W071 Villa Maria Rd, Saint Charles, IL 60174 · (331) 228-3300 · Kane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B+Test 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
13.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
158 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
62.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +19.6pp since 2023
Math
55.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +19.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.7% | 55.1% |
| 2023-24 | 43.1% | 36.0% |
% 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
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Anderson Elementary School
Anderson Elementary School's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Elementary School this school | 460 | 34.3% | 55.0% |
| Indian Prairie Elementary School Crystal Lake | 496 | 36.9% | 52.7% |
| Woodview School Grayslake | 450 | 34.9% | 54.4% |
| Kenneth E Neubert Elementary School Algonquin | 445 | 30.3% | 61.3% |
| Mark DeLay School Darien | 453 | 34.0% | N/A |
| Westmore Elementary School Lombard | 432 | 33.3% | 54.9% |
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 Anderson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #442 of 1,925 | #23 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #531 of 2,077 ▲ 97 | #26 of 83 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.7% | #588 of 2,077 ▲ 108 | #27 of 83 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 460 | #714 of 2,419 | #40 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #915 of 2,035 | #23 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #775 of 2,042 | #24 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.3% | #1,688 of 2,132 | #52 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.1% | #48 of 615 | #3 of 32 |
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
460
+28 (+6%) vs 2020
+48% since 1990-91, when it was 311
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 | 460 | 35.2 | 13.1:1 | 34% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 472 | 35.2 | 13.4:1 | 35% (163) |
| 2022-23 | 445 | 35.7 | 12.5:1 | 30% (133) |
| 2020-21 | 432 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 338 | 24.2 | 14.0:1 | 37% (124) |
| 2015-16 | 393 | 25 | 15.7:1 | 36% (143) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | 30 | 15.5:1 | 25% (116) |
| 2000-01 | 355 | 26 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 17 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Anderson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 36% (338 to 460); teachers up 46% (24.2 to 35.2).
About Anderson Elementary School
Anderson Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Saint Charles, Illinois. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 460 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
Anderson Elementary School is one school in St Charles CUSD 303, a system of 16 schools with 11,952 students.
Roughly 63% of students at Anderson Elementary School are White. Other reported shares: 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 2% Black. The school's diversity index is 54%, meaning two students picked at random have a 54% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 35.2 full-time positions, a ratio of 13.1:1. That is lower than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 34%. The gap from the 48% average for public schools in Kane County is 14 points.
Anderson Elementary School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 68% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Anderson Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (55.0%) and its predicted rate (51.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Anderson Elementary School is located in Kane County, where the median household income is $103,163, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Besides Anderson Elementary School, Kane County has 166 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Anderson Elementary School to another public school is about 1.3 miles, to St Charles North High School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Anderson Elementary School ranks 3rd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
2024-25 enrollment was 460, a 6% increase from 432 in 2020-21.
Discussions about Anderson Elementary School may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St Charles CUSD 303
- St Charles East High SchoolHigh · 1,930 students
- St Charles North High SchoolHigh · 1,903 students
- Thompson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,364 students
- Wredling Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,289 students
- Wild Rose Elementary SchoolElementary · 535 students
- Ferson Creek SchoolElementary · 533 students
Other schools in Saint Charles
- St Charles East High SchoolHigh · 1,930 students
- St Charles North High SchoolHigh · 1,903 students
- Thompson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,364 students
- Wredling Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,289 students
- Wild Rose Elementary SchoolElementary · 535 students
- Ferson Creek SchoolElementary · 533 students
Other Anderson Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 15 states are named Anderson Elementary. Anderson Elementary School is the 11th largest of the 23.
- Anderson Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 748 students
- Anderson Elementary SchoolCONROE, TX · 686 students
- Anderson Elementary SchoolSPRING, TX · 635 students
- Anderson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 585 students
- Anderson Elementary SchoolBooneville, MS · 551 students
Nearby schools
- St Charles North High School1.3 mi · 1,903
- Willard Elementary School2.3 mi · 370
- Wredling Middle School2.4 mi · 1,289
- Clinton Elementary School2.5 mi · 596
- St Charles East High School2.6 mi · 1,930
- Corron Elementary School2.8 mi · 487
Frequently asked questions
About Anderson Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Anderson Elementary School?
Anderson Elementary School enrolls approximately 460 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Anderson Elementary School serve?
Anderson Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Anderson Elementary School have?
Anderson Elementary School employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Anderson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Anderson Elementary School are roughly 63% White, 23% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Anderson Elementary School public or private?
Anderson Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by St Charles CUSD 303.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.