Elgin High School

Elgin High School is a senior high of expansive scale in Elgin, Illinois, run under SD U-46, instructing 2,576 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 209% bigger than the state mean of about 834.

SD U-46 runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 34,036 students. Elgin High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Elgin High School reports that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 8% White, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, Elgin High School logs 149 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Elgin High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at Elgin High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Elgin High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -9.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Elgin High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Huff Elem School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elgin High School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elgin High School has held roughly steady, going from 2,582 students in 2018 to 2,576 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 74% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.