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Enrollment
623
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD SD 205·NCES 173451003580
Constance Lane Elementary School
620 Gregory St, Rockford, IL 61104 · (815) 966-3380 · Winnebago County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL623 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Illinois public elementary schools
- FTest 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
15.8:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
564 students
DISTRICT 71% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 102 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
61%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
7.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
3.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 8 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 3 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 7.6% | 3.3% |
| 2023-24 | 5.4% | 0.7% |
% 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
5.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 6% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Constance Lane Elementary School
Constance Lane Elementary School's state test result (5.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constance Lane Elementary School this school | 623 | 90.5% | 5.8% |
| Rock Island Academy Rock Island | 540 | 95.7% | 11.1% |
| Summerdale Early Childhood Center Rockford | 460 | 90.0% | N/A |
| West View Elementary School Rockford | 521 | 85.8% | 27.4% |
| R K Welsh Elementary School Rockford | 483 | 87.4% | 14.6% |
| Annie Jo Gordon Comm Lrning Cntr Peoria | 542 | 92.3% | 12.9% |
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 Constance Lane Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Winnebago County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 5.8% | #1,916 of 1,925 | #43 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 3.3% | #2,064 of 2,077 ▼ 1 | #43 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 7.6% | #2,071 of 2,077 ▼ 27 | #44 of 44 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 623 | #224 of 2,419 | #5 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,694 of 2,035 | #23 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #524 of 2,042 | #25 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #266 of 2,132 | #5 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +120.1% | #7 of 615 | #1 of 22 |
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
623
+173 (+38%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 424
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 | 623 | 39.4 | 15.8:1 | 91% (564) |
| 2023-24 | 601 | 35.1 | 17.1:1 | 90% (540) |
| 2022-23 | 573 | 33.9 | 16.9:1 | 88% (507) |
| 2020-21 | 450 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 283 | 21.1 | 13.4:1 | 72% (204) |
| 2015-16 | 303 | 21 | 14.4:1 | 83% (250) |
| 2010-11 | 378 | 23 | 16.4:1 | 92% (347) |
| 2000-01 | 303 | 25 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 424 | 27 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Constance Lane Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 120% (283 to 623); teachers up 87% (21.1 to 39.4).
About Constance Lane Elementary School
Constance Lane Elementary School is an elementary school in Rockford, Illinois, and it is part of Rockford SD 205. The school has 623 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 64% higher.
The Rockford SD 205 system has 44 schools and 28,467 students.
The student body at Constance Lane Elementary School is 57% Black. Other reported shares: 18% Hispanic, 12% White, 11% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Winnebago County's residents are about 12% Black, 45 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 61, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Constance Lane Elementary School is 15.8:1, based on 39.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is lower. Constance Lane Elementary School counts 91% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Winnebago County is 61%.
Constance Lane Elementary School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 0% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 19.2% for Constance Lane Elementary School. The school posts 5.8%, 13.5 points below the prediction.
In the wider Winnebago County area, the median household earns about $65,837 a year, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Constance Lane Elementary School shares Winnebago County with 93 other public schools.
Constance Lane Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Beyer Early Childhood Center, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Constance Lane Elementary School is 7th of 7 on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Constance Lane Elementary School as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 173 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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
Nearby schools
- Beyer Early Childhood Center0.7 mi · 497
- Abraham Lincoln Middle School0.9 mi · 736
- Washington Elementary School1.0 mi · 523
- Jackson Charter School1.1 mi · 243
- Barbour Two-Way Lang Immersion1.4 mi · 628
- Haskell Elementary School1.5 mi · 301
Frequently asked questions
About Constance Lane Elementary SchoolHow large is Constance Lane Elementary School?
Constance Lane Elementary School enrolls approximately 623 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Constance Lane Elementary School serve?
Constance Lane Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Constance Lane Elementary School have?
Constance Lane Elementary School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Constance Lane Elementary School?
Student demographics at Constance Lane Elementary School are roughly 12% White, 18% Hispanic, 57% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Constance Lane Elementary School in?
Constance Lane Elementary School is part of Rockford SD 205.
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