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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Cherry Valley Elementary School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
676
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD SD 205·NCES 173451003604
Cherry Valley Elementary School
6754 Armer Dr, Rockford, IL 61109 · (815) 332-4938 · Winnebago County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL676 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 39% 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.
- B-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
17.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
434 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 56%
Community
6
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 | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 125 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (119).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
44.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +15.6pp since 2023
Math
28.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.4% | 28.7% |
| 2023-24 | 28.8% | 19.9% |
% 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
35.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Cherry Valley Elementary School
Cherry Valley Elementary School's state test result (35.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Valley Elementary School this school | 676 | 64.2% | 35.3% |
| Frank A Brodnicki Elementary School Justice | 618 | 61.7% | 50.6% |
| Oak Ridge Elementary School Palos Hills | 774 | 66.0% | 70.5% |
| Bradley East Elementary School Bradley | 519 | 63.2% | N/A |
| Hamilton Elementary School Moline | 560 | 59.6% | 39.9% |
| Glen Oaks Elementary School Hickory Hills | 649 | 59.9% | 71.8% |
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 Cherry Valley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Winnebago County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.3% | #1,084 of 1,925 | #14 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #1,326 of 2,077 ▼ 132 | #20 of 44 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #1,197 of 2,077 ▲ 32 | #15 of 44 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 676 | #155 of 2,419 | #2 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #1,876 of 2,035 | #31 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.2% | #80 of 2,042 | #9 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.2% | #891 of 2,132 | #32 of 53 |
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
676
+91 (+16%) vs 2020
+72% since 1990-91, when it was 392
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 | 676 | 39.1 | 17.3:1 | 64% (434) |
| 2023-24 | 634 | 37 | 17.1:1 | 64% (405) |
| 2022-23 | 639 | 33 | 19.4:1 | 57% (365) |
| 2020-21 | 585 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 178 | 10 | 17.8:1 | 32% (57) |
| 2015-16 | 299 | 14 | 21.4:1 | 35% (105) |
| 2010-11 | 302 | 17 | 17.8:1 | 48% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 249 | 13 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 392 | 17 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cherry Valley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 280% (178 to 676); teachers up 291% (10 to 39.1).
About Cherry Valley Elementary School
The public elementary school Cherry Valley Elementary School is located in Rockford, Illinois. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 676 students. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students, so this school is 77% bigger than average.
Cherry Valley Elementary School is one school in Rockford SD 205, a system of 44 schools with 28,467 students.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Cherry Valley Elementary School, at 40%. Other reported shares: 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% multiracial, and 7% Asian. Winnebago County's residents are about 66% White, 27 points above the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 72% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 39.1 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 17.3:1. That is higher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 64%. For comparison, public schools in Winnebago County average 61%.
The allk12 Grade for Cherry Valley Elementary School is C+. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 39% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Cherry Valley Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 35.3%, compared with a predicted 34.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
Across Winnebago County, the median household income is $65,837, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Winnebago County is home to 94 public schools and about 44,103 public school students.
Of nearby public schools, Gregory Elementary School is the closest, at about 2.4 miles. Cherry Valley Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Cherry Valley Elementary School ranks 1st on proficiency.
Cherry Valley Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at Cherry Valley Elementary School climbed 16% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 585 to 676 students.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Winnebago County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
283,292
Census ACS
Median income
$65,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
44,103 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockford SD 205
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other schools in Rockford
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other Cherry Valley Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Cherry Valley Elementary. Cherry Valley Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- Cherry Valley Elementary SchoolDuvall, WA · 445 students
- Cherry Valley Elementary SchoolNewark, OH · 346 students
- Cherry Valley Elementary SchoolFRANKTOWN, CO · 25 students
Nearby schools
- Gregory Elementary School2.4 mi · 418
- Swan Hillman Elementary School2.7 mi · 581
- Rolling Green2.9 mi · 505
- Bernard W Flinn Middle School3.3 mi · 807
- Whitehead Elementary School3.3 mi · 678
- Jefferson High School3.3 mi · 2,173
Frequently asked questions
About Cherry Valley Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cherry Valley Elementary School?
Cherry Valley Elementary School enrolls approximately 676 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Cherry Valley Elementary School serve?
Cherry Valley Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Cherry Valley Elementary School have?
Cherry Valley Elementary School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.3:1.
How diverse is Cherry Valley Elementary School?
Cherry Valley Elementary School reports a student body of 40% White, 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Cherry Valley Elementary School in?
Cherry Valley Elementary School is part of Rockford SD 205.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.