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What's one thing Balmoral Elem Sch gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
472
Elementary
DISTRICT 347 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CRETE MONEE CUSD 201U·NCES 171125001342
Balmoral Elementary School
1124 W New Monee Rd, Crete, IL 60417 · (708) 367-2500 · Will County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL472 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
15.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
342 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 7 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
33.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.2pp since 2023
Math
16.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 4 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.2% | 16.6% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 12.2% |
% 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
22.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Balmoral Elementary School
Balmoral Elementary School's state test result (22.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balmoral Elementary School this school | 472 | 72.5% | 22.8% |
| C Henry Bloom Elementary School Rockford | 426 | 79.1% | 18.1% |
| Thomas Elementary School Carbondale | 400 | 75.0% | 18.6% |
| Crete Elementary School Crete | 381 | 65.4% | 25.7% |
| Whittier Primary School Peoria | 366 | 79.5% | 24.1% |
| Conklin Elementary School Rockford | 372 | 77.4% | 15.2% |
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 Balmoral Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #1,515 of 1,925 | #83 of 94 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.6% | #1,692 of 2,077 ▼ 169 | #89 of 100 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #1,581 of 2,077 ▼ 13 | #86 of 100 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 472 | #652 of 2,419 | #50 of 116 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #1,701 of 2,035 | #83 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.4% | #207 of 2,042 | #20 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.5% | #681 of 2,132 | #20 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.3% | #1,341 of 1,461 | #64 of 71 |
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
472
+50 (+12%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 588
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 | 472 | 29.8 | 15.9:1 | 72% (342) |
| 2023-24 | 462 | 33.8 | 13.7:1 | 99% (456) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 26.3 | 16.8:1 | 99% (436) |
| 2020-21 | 422 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 35 | 13.8:1 | 75% (362) |
| 2015-16 | 448 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 76% (340) |
| 2010-11 | 512 | 24 | 21.3:1 | 76% (390) |
| 2000-01 | 726 | 31 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 588 | 30 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Balmoral Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (483 to 472); teachers down 15% (35 to 29.8).
About Balmoral Elementary School
Among the schools in Crete, Illinois, is Balmoral Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 472 students. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 24% higher.
Balmoral Elementary School is run by Crete Monee CUSD 201U, whose 8 schools enroll 4,562 students.
The biggest share of students at Balmoral Elementary School, 44%, is Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 28% Hispanic, 18% White, and 8% multiracial. In Will County overall, about 12% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Balmoral Elementary School scores 68%.
Balmoral Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1, with 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. The school has 72% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Will County, the average is 44%.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Balmoral Elementary School outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Balmoral Elementary School are 6.8 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (22.8% actual, 29.7% predicted).
In the wider Will County area, median household income comes to about $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Will County counts 209 public schools with about 113,008 students.
Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr is about 1.3 miles from Balmoral Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Balmoral Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 50 students, from 422 to 472.
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Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Crete Monee CUSD 201U
- Crete-Monee High SchoolHigh · 1,480 students
- Crete-Monee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,002 students
- Crete Elementary SchoolElementary · 381 students
- Monee Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Talala Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Coretta Scott King Magnet SchoolElementary · 293 students
Other schools in Crete
- Crete-Monee High SchoolHigh · 1,480 students
- Crete Elementary SchoolElementary · 381 students
- Crete-Monee Early Childhood CntrElementary · 256 students
Nearby schools
- Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr1.3 mi · 256
- Crete-Monee High School1.5 mi · 1,480
- Crete Elementary School1.8 mi · 381
- Crete-Monee Middle School2.1 mi · 1,002
- Coretta Scott King Magnet School2.2 mi · 293
- Columbia Central School2.7 mi · 646
Frequently asked questions
About Balmoral Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Balmoral Elementary School?
Balmoral Elementary School enrolls approximately 472 students in grades KG-05.
Is Balmoral Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Balmoral Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Balmoral Elementary School have?
Balmoral Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
How diverse is Balmoral Elementary School?
Balmoral Elementary School reports a student body of 18% White, 28% Hispanic, 44% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Balmoral Elementary School in?
Balmoral Elementary School is part of Crete Monee CUSD 201U.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.