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Eastview Elem School
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Eastview Elem School
As an average-sized elementary school in Algonquin, Illinois, Eastview Elem School hosts 401 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of CUSD 300.
CUSD 300 comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 20,705 students; Eastview Elem School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Eastview Elem School lists that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Eastview Elem School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at Eastview Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of McHenry County's rate of about 35%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eastview Elem School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 41.7%; Eastview Elem School posts 67.5%, +25.8 points above that line.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for McHenry County put median household earnings sit near $104,802, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McHenry County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), of which Eastview Elem School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Algonquin Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eastview Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Eastview Elem School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 42.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Eastview Elem School's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 401). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 63% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for Eastview Elem School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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