Delacey Family Educ Ctr

Delacey Family Educ Ctr operates as an intimate K-5 school in Carpentersville, Illinois, one of the schools within CUSD 300. Current enrollment sits at 210 students spanning grade pre-K. That puts it 45% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

CUSD 300 runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 20,705 students. Delacey Family Educ Ctr is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Delacey Family Educ Ctr reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 11% White, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, Kane County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Delacey Family Educ Ctr is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Parkview Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 40%: 348 students in 2018 compared to 210 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 55% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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