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Enrollment
521
Elementary
DISTRICT 512 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SD 25·NCES 170414000095
Dryden Elementary School
722 S Dryden Pl, Arlington Heights, IL 60005 · (847) 398-4280 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
110 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 16 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 2 | 0% |
| Grade 8 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
74.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.7pp since 2023
Math
65.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +19.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.4% | 65.9% |
| 2023-24 | 65.7% | 46.6% |
% 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
68.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Dryden Elementary School
Dryden Elementary School's state test result (68.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dryden Elementary School this school | 521 | 21.1% | 68.0% |
| Woods Creek Elementary School Crystal Lake | 489 | 22.7% | 54.6% |
| Windsor Elementary School Arlington Heights | 490 | 16.7% | 69.5% |
| Mackeben Elementary School Algonquin | 522 | 22.8% | N/A |
| Isaac Fox Elementary School Lake Zurich | 520 | 15.6% | 71.8% |
| Pleasantdale Elementary School La Grange | 466 | 17.0% | 74.9% |
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 Dryden Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #157 of 1,925 | #58 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #292 of 2,077 ▲ 87 | #101 of 829 ▲ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #241 of 2,077 ▼ 75 | #93 of 829 ▼ 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #465 of 2,419 | #230 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #956 of 2,035 | #441 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.6% | #1,265 of 2,042 | #466 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.1% | #1,943 of 2,132 | #743 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.0% | #469 of 615 | #146 of 186 |
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
521
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
+58% since 1990-91, when it was 329
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 | 521 | 39.5 | 13.2:1 | 21% (110) |
| 2023-24 | 505 | 33.5 | 15.1:1 | 16% (80) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 32 | 15.6:1 | 12% (60) |
| 2020-21 | 519 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 501 | 32.4 | 15.4:1 | 9% (44) |
| 2015-16 | 504 | 33 | 15.3:1 | 1% (7) |
| 2010-11 | 504 | 29 | 17.4:1 | 6% (31) |
| 2000-01 | 441 | 26 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 329 | 15 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dryden Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (501 to 521); teachers up 22% (32.4 to 39.5).
About Dryden Elementary School
Dryden Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 521 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
Arlington Heights SD 25 oversees Dryden Elementary School and 8 other schools, with 5,423 students in total.
White students are 79% of those enrolled at Dryden Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 10% Hispanic and 9% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Cook County's population at about 44%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 36, compared with 70 nationally.
Dryden Elementary School has 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. At Dryden Elementary School, 21% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Cook County averages 66%, higher than here.
A school with Dryden Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Illinois is predicted to score 59.3%. Dryden Elementary School scores 68.0%, 8.7 points above that line.
The county, Cook County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Measured in a straight line, Westbrook Early Learning Cntr is about 0.8 miles from Dryden Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 55.0%, lower than Dryden Elementary School's 68.0%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Dryden Elementary School was 519 in 2020-21 and 521 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Arlington Heights SD 25
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,024 students
- South Middle SchoolMiddle · 812 students
- Olive-Mary Stitt SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Westgate Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
- Ivy Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 593 students
- Windsor Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
Other schools in Arlington Heights
- John Hersey High SchoolHigh · 2,040 students
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,024 students
- South Middle SchoolMiddle · 812 students
- Olive-Mary Stitt SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Westgate Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
- Ivy Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 593 students
Other Dryden Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Dryden Elementary. Dryden Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- DRYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLDRYDEN, NY · 500 students
- Dryden ElementaryDryden, VA · 237 students
- Dryden Elementary SchoolDRYDEN, MI · 224 students
Nearby schools
- Westbrook Early Learning Cntr0.8 mi · 400
- South Middle School0.9 mi · 812
- Windsor Elementary School1.0 mi · 490
- Forest View Elementary School1.1 mi · 339
- Holmes Jr High School1.3 mi · 459
- The Early Learning Center1.3 mi · 270
Frequently asked questions
About Dryden Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dryden Elementary School?
Dryden Elementary School enrolls approximately 521 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Dryden Elementary School serve?
Dryden Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dryden Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dryden Elementary School is approximately 13.2:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dryden Elementary School?
At Dryden Elementary School, the student body is approximately 79% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 9% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Dryden Elementary School public or private?
Dryden Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Arlington Heights SD 25.
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