C M Bardwell Elem School

C M Bardwell Elem School, a large elementary school in Aurora, Illinois, one of the schools within Aurora East USD 131, caters to 679 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 78% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Aurora East USD 131, which oversees 18 schools and 12,187 students, C M Bardwell Elem School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, C M Bardwell Elem School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest looks like 3% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting C M Bardwell Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Kane County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), C M Bardwell Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.7%; C M Bardwell Elem School posts 12.6%, -20.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kane County put median household earnings sit near $103,163, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), C M Bardwell Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is K D Waldo Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, C M Bardwell Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 23.1%.

C M Bardwell Elem School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. C M Bardwell Elem School's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 821 (now 679).

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