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Which teacher or staff member at Canterbury Elem School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CRYSTAL LAKE CCSD 47·NCES 171135001357
Canterbury Elementary School
875 Canterbury Dr, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 · (815) 459-8180 · McHenry County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.9:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
265 students
DISTRICT 33% · 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 | 19 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
34.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +17.2pp since 2023
Math
27.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +17.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.8% | 27.7% |
| 2023-24 | 17.6% | 10.2% |
% 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
28.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Canterbury Elementary School
Canterbury Elementary School's state test result (28.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury Elementary School this school | 486 | 54.5% | 28.2% |
| J Covington Elementary School Oak Lawn | 470 | 56.0% | 38.5% |
| Murphy Elementary School Chicago | 514 | 51.8% | 42.0% |
| P H Miller Elementary School Plano | 438 | 55.9% | N/A |
| Elmwood Elementary School Elmwood Park | 567 | 57.8% | 48.0% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Rochelle | 491 | 54.4% | N/A |
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 Canterbury Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In McHenry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #1,333 of 1,925 | #42 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #1,369 of 2,077 ▲ 236 | #41 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #1,520 of 2,077 ▲ 139 | #42 of 44 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #605 of 2,419 | #21 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #855 of 2,035 | #19 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.3% | #735 of 2,042 | #11 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.5% | #1,174 of 2,132 | #8 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.2% | #330 of 615 | #6 of 16 |
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
486
+53 (+12%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 634
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 | 486 | 37.7 | 12.9:1 | 55% (265) |
| 2023-24 | 489 | 36.7 | 13.3:1 | 57% (280) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 37.2 | 12.6:1 | 54% (251) |
| 2020-21 | 433 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 38.4 | 11.7:1 | 50% (226) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 35 | 12.5:1 | 50% (220) |
| 2010-11 | 513 | 35 | 14.7:1 | 35% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 31 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 634 | 27 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Canterbury Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (449 to 486); teachers down 2% (38.4 to 37.7).
About Canterbury Elementary School
Families in Crystal Lake, Illinois, are served by Canterbury Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 486 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 28% higher.
Crystal Lake CCSD 47 serves 6,889 students across 12 schools.
More than half of enrollment at Canterbury Elementary School is Hispanic: 54%. The remaining shares are 39% White, 2% Asian, and 2% multiracial. McHenry County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 55%.
There are about 12.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Canterbury Elementary School, which has 37.7. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Canterbury Elementary School is about 55%. That is 20 points above the 35% average for public schools in McHenry County.
Canterbury Elementary School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 14% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Test results at Canterbury Elementary School are 11.9 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (28.2% actual, 40.0% predicted).
McHenry County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $104,802, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. McHenry County's 89 public schools enroll about 50,123 students and include Canterbury Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, Coventry Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Canterbury Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 28.2% is below the 47.0% average for 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).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 433 to 486, a 12% rise.
The discussion board for Canterbury Elementary School is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
McHenry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
312,591
Census ACS
Median income
$104,802
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,123 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Crystal Lake CCSD 47
- Hannah Beardsley Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- Lundahl Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Richard F Bernotas Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- North Elementary SchoolElementary · 638 students
- Coventry Elementary SchoolElementary · 629 students
- West Elementary SchoolElementary · 520 students
Other schools in Crystal Lake
- Crystal Lake Central High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Crystal Lake South High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Prairie Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,133 students
- Hannah Beardsley Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- Lundahl Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Richard F Bernotas Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
Other Canterbury Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Canterbury Elementary. Canterbury Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Canterbury Elementary SchoolEDINBURG, TX · 687 students
- Canterbury ElementaryGreendale, WI · 350 students
- Canterbury Elementary SchoolCleveland Heights, OH · 311 students
- Canterbury Elementary SchoolCanterbury, CT · 295 students
- Canterbury Elementary SchoolCanterbury, NH · 90 students
Nearby schools
- Coventry Elementary School0.4 mi · 629
- Crystal Lake South High School1.1 mi · 1,279
- Lundahl Middle School1.2 mi · 797
- South Elementary School1.4 mi · 390
- Crystal Lake Central High School1.5 mi · 1,443
- Husmann Elementary School1.6 mi · 518
Frequently asked questions
About Canterbury Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Canterbury Elementary School?
Canterbury Elementary School enrolls approximately 486 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Canterbury Elementary School serve?
Canterbury Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Canterbury Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Canterbury Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Canterbury Elementary School?
Student demographics at Canterbury Elementary School are roughly 39% White, 54% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Canterbury Elementary School in?
Canterbury Elementary School is part of Crystal Lake CCSD 47.
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