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Enrollment
487
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST CHARLES CUSD 303·NCES 173717005707
Corron Elementary School
455 Thornwood Way, South Elgin, IL 60177 · (331) 228-6900 · Kane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL487 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest 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
14.4:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
71 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 | 17 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
78.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.4pp since 2023
Math
71.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 71.3% |
| 2023-24 | 65.6% | 61.5% |
% 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
69.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Corron Elementary School
Corron Elementary School's state test result (69.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corron Elementary School this school | 487 | 14.6% | 69.8% |
| Northpoint Elementary School Bloomington | 472 | 11.9% | 55.3% |
| Kingsley Elementary School Naperville | 415 | 16.4% | 72.9% |
| Wayne Elementary School Wayne | 391 | 18.2% | 58.9% |
| Field Elementary School Elmhurst | 433 | 12.5% | 78.1% |
| Norton Creek Elementary School West Chicago | 479 | 9.6% | 76.2% |
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 Corron Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #127 of 1,925 | #4 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #195 of 2,077 ▼ 60 | #6 of 83 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #177 of 2,077 ▼ 8 | #5 of 83 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 487 | #600 of 2,419 | #35 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #1,367 of 2,035 | #44 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.1% | #712 of 2,042 | #22 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.6% | #2,041 of 2,132 | #71 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.0% | #228 of 615 | #15 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
487
-32 (-6%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 591
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 | 487 | 33.8 | 14.4:1 | 15% (71) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 36.5 | 14.8:1 | 16% (86) |
| 2022-23 | 540 | 39.5 | 13.7:1 | 14% (78) |
| 2020-21 | 519 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 26.3 | 16.6:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 27 | 16.5:1 | 5% (21) |
| 2010-11 | 591 | 34 | 17.4:1 | 3% (15) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Corron Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (435 to 487); teachers up 29% (26.3 to 33.8).
About Corron Elementary School
Corron Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in South Elgin, Illinois. It had 487 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 28% larger than average.
St Charles CUSD 303 has a total of 16 schools and 11,952 students, Corron Elementary School among them.
About 62% of the student body at Corron Elementary School is White. Other groups include 17% Asian, 13% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 56, compared with 70 nationally.
Corron Elementary School reports a ratio of 14.4 students per teacher, from 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 13.9:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Corron Elementary School, 15% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Kane County average 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, Corron Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 83% of Illinois public elementary schools.
The model predicts 63.1% for a school in Illinois with Corron Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Corron Elementary School posts 69.8%.
In the surrounding county, Kane County, median household income comes to about $103,163, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Corron Elementary School, Kane County has 167 public schools.
Corron Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Otter Creek Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Corron Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Corron Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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 St Charles CUSD 303
- St Charles East High SchoolHigh · 1,930 students
- St Charles North High SchoolHigh · 1,903 students
- Thompson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,364 students
- Wredling Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,289 students
- Wild Rose Elementary SchoolElementary · 535 students
- Ferson Creek SchoolElementary · 533 students
Other schools in South Elgin
- South Elgin High SchoolHigh · 2,665 students
- Kenyon Woods Middle SchoolMiddle · 873 students
- Clinton Elementary SchoolElementary · 596 students
- Fox Meadow Elementary SchoolElementary · 577 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
Nearby schools
- Otter Creek Elementary School0.8 mi · 437
- Ferson Creek School2.0 mi · 533
- Fox Meadow Elementary School2.1 mi · 577
- Willard Elementary School2.7 mi · 370
- Anderson Elementary School2.8 mi · 460
- St Charles North High School2.9 mi · 1,903
Frequently asked questions
About Corron Elementary SchoolHow large is Corron Elementary School?
Corron Elementary School enrolls approximately 487 students in grades KG-05.
Is Corron Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Corron Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Corron Elementary School have?
Corron Elementary School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Corron Elementary School?
At Corron Elementary School, the student body is approximately 62% White, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black, 17% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Corron Elementary School in?
Corron Elementary School is part of St Charles CUSD 303.
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