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Edna Rollins Elem School
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Edna Rollins Elem School is a moderately sized primary school in Aurora, Illinois, overseen by Aurora East USD 131. The school instructs 508 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.
Aurora East USD 131 comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 12,187 students; Edna Rollins Elem School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Edna Rollins Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest consists of 8% Black. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Edna Rollins Elem School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 69% of students are eligible 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 north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, Edna Rollins Elem School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.4%; this one comes in at 14.8%, -16.6 points off the demographic line.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kane County put median household income runs about $103,163, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Edna Rollins Elem School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).
W S Beaupre Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edna Rollins Elem School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.6%.
Edna Rollins Elem School operates from a bedroom-community location.
Five-year trend. Edna Rollins Elem School's enrollment has edged up 53% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 508). Class-load math has grew: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, members of the Edna Rollins Elem School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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