Dundee-Crown High School

Set in Carpentersville, Illinois, Dundee-Crown High School is a well-populated senior high, one of the schools within CUSD 300. It instructs 2,573 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Dundee-Crown High School sits 209% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 27 schools in CUSD 300 (20,705 students total), Dundee-Crown High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Dundee-Crown High School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school lists 22% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Dundee-Crown High School has 166 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 72% of students at Dundee-Crown High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kane County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dundee-Crown High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.0%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kane County) records that the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Dundee-Crown High School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).

Perry Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dundee-Crown High School. On composite proficiency, Dundee-Crown High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dundee-Crown High School has ticked up 5%, going from 2,458 students in 2018 to 2,573 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 69% across the same window.

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