Arlene Welch Elementary School

Arlene Welch Elementary School is an elementary campus of expansive scale in Naperville, Illinois, part of Indian Prairie CUSD 204, serveing 576 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 51% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 32 schools in Indian Prairie CUSD 204 (26,108 students total), Arlene Welch Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Arlene Welch Elementary School logs that 44% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 31% White, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 6% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Will County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Arlene Welch Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Will County put median household earnings sit near $109,984, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Arlene Welch Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Neuqua Valley High School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Arlene Welch Elementary School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 75.5%.

Arlene Welch Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arlene Welch Elementary School has ticked down 15%, going from 674 students in 2018 to 576 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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