Carl Sandburg Elem School

Located at 1345 Jewell Rd, in Wheaton, Illinois, Carl Sandburg Elem School is a mid-tier primary school that instructs 402 students (grades K through 5), operated by CUSD 200.

Across the 20 schools in CUSD 200 (11,639 students total), Carl Sandburg Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Carl Sandburg Elem School logs that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, DuPage County as a whole is about 65% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Carl Sandburg Elem School lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 37% of students at Carl Sandburg Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Carl Sandburg Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.0%; this one delivers 59.7%.

In the broader community, census data for DuPage County shows the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), Carl Sandburg Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wheaton North High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carl Sandburg Elem School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 68.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 393 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 8% to 13% across the same window.

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