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What's one thing Clinton Elem School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
596
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SD U-46·NCES 171371001669
Clinton Elementary School
770 Mill St, South Elgin, IL 60177 · (847) 888-7045 · Kane County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL596 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
235 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 39 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 18% smaller than its 6th grade class (89).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
46.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.3pp since 2023
Math
34.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.3% | 34.3% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 26.0% |
% 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
39.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Clinton Elementary School
Clinton Elementary School's state test result (39.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Elementary School this school | 596 | 39.4% | 39.2% |
| Gray M Sanborn Elementary School Palatine | 661 | 38.6% | 35.4% |
| Fox Meadow Elementary School South Elgin | 577 | 37.1% | 46.4% |
| Garvy J Elementary School Chicago | 736 | 36.3% | 51.6% |
| Liberty Elementary School Carpentersville | 749 | 44.7% | 54.3% |
| Farnsworth Elementary School Chicago | 502 | 38.0% | 44.2% |
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 Clinton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #939 of 1,925 | #32 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #1,138 of 2,077 ▼ 188 | #46 of 83 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,142 of 2,077 ▼ 160 | #44 of 83 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 596 | #280 of 2,419 | #13 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #1,995 of 2,035 | #86 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.3% | #295 of 2,042 | #5 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.4% | #1,565 of 2,132 | #49 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.7% | #74 of 615 | #5 of 32 |
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
596
+63 (+12%) vs 2020
+212% since 1990-91, when it was 191
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 | 596 | 28.8 | 20.7:1 | 39% (235) |
| 2023-24 | 593 | 28.4 | 20.9:1 | 33% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 555 | 26.6 | 20.9:1 | 36% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 533 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 463 | 23.9 | 19.3:1 | 37% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 452 | 20 | 22.6:1 | 37% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 450 | 16 | 28.1:1 | 32% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 624 | 26 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 191 | 9 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clinton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 29% (463 to 596); teachers up 20% (23.9 to 28.8).
About Clinton Elementary School
At 770 Mill St in South Elgin, Illinois, Clinton Elementary School operates as a large elementary school. It educates 596 students in pre-K through 6. The typical figure for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students.
District-wide, SD U-46 has 51 schools and 34,036 students.
Clinton Elementary School has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 43%. Other reported shares: 37% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 58% White among all Kane County residents. The school's diversity index is 66%, meaning two students picked at random have a 66% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Clinton Elementary School operates with 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 20.7:1. On average, elementary schools in Illinois have 13.9:1, compared with 20.7:1 here. Clinton Elementary School reports 39% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 48% average for public schools in Kane County.
Test results at Clinton Elementary School are 9.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (39.2% actual, 48.8% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for Kane County show that the median household income is $103,163, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Besides Clinton Elementary School, Kane County has 166 other public schools.
The closest public school, South Elgin High School, is about 0.4 miles from Clinton Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Clinton Elementary School ranks 6th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is up 12% from 2020-21, when Clinton Elementary School had 533 students, to 2024-25, when it had 596.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SD U-46
- South Elgin High SchoolHigh · 2,665 students
- Elgin High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Larkin High SchoolHigh · 2,174 students
- Bartlett High SchoolHigh · 2,037 students
- Streamwood High SchoolHigh · 1,890 students
- Kenyon Woods Middle SchoolMiddle · 873 students
Other schools in South Elgin
- South Elgin High SchoolHigh · 2,665 students
- Kenyon Woods Middle SchoolMiddle · 873 students
- Fox Meadow Elementary SchoolElementary · 577 students
- Corron Elementary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
Other Clinton Elementary schools
18 other US public schools in 14 states are named Clinton Elementary. Clinton Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 19.
- Clinton Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 1,050 students
- Clinton Elementary SchoolClinton, IL · 506 students
- Clinton ElementaryClinton, MA · 870 students
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWEST SENECA, NY · 629 students
- Clinton Elementary SchoolCLINTON, MI · 569 students
Nearby schools
- South Elgin High School0.4 mi · 2,665
- Kenyon Woods Middle School0.7 mi · 873
- Willard Elementary School0.8 mi · 370
- Fox Meadow Elementary School1.8 mi · 577
- Nature Ridge Elementary School2.0 mi · 458
- Huff Elementary School2.1 mi · 577
Frequently asked questions
About Clinton Elementary SchoolHow large is Clinton Elementary School?
Clinton Elementary School enrolls approximately 596 students in grades PK-06.
Is Clinton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Clinton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Clinton Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Clinton Elementary School is approximately 20.7:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Clinton Elementary School?
Student demographics at Clinton Elementary School are roughly 43% White, 37% Hispanic, 5% Black, 10% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Clinton Elementary School?
Clinton Elementary School is overseen by SD U-46 in Kane County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.