Country Trails Elem

As a big primary school in Elgin, Illinois, Country Trails Elem educates 751 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Central CUSD 301. Enrollment runs roughly 97% above the state mean of about 381.

Across the 7 schools in Central CUSD 301 (5,082 students total), Country Trails Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Country Trails Elem reports that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Kane County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, Country Trails Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 67.0%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kane County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Country Trails Elem is one campus in the mix.

Prairie Knolls Middle Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Country Trails Elem at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 40.0%.

Country Trails Elem operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Country Trails Elem has ticked up 22%, going from 617 students in 2018 to 751 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 51% across the same window.

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