Central Road Elem School

Central Road Elem School, a sizable elementary campus in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, run under Palatine CCSD 15, instructs 620 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Palatine CCSD 15 runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 11,715 students. Central Road Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Central Road Elem School logs that the most-represented group is Asian (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 37% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Central Road Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.4%; this one delivers 61.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Central Road Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Willow Bend Elem School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Road Elem School. On composite proficiency, Central Road Elem School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Central Road Elem School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 575 students in 2018 compared to 620 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 17% to 45% over that span.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.