Elmwood Elem School

Located at 1024 Magnolia Ln, in Naperville, Illinois, Elmwood Elem School is a big elementary campus that hosts 726 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Naperville CUSD 203. That puts it 91% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Naperville CUSD 203 runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 16,047 students. Elmwood Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Elmwood Elem School lists that White students make up the majority at 67%; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with DuPage County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, DuPage County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Elmwood Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.6%, the actual is 69.1%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for DuPage County indicate median household income runs about $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Elmwood Elem School is one of 277 public schools in DuPage County (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students).

The closest other public school is Lincoln Jr High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elmwood Elem School. On composite proficiency, Elmwood Elem School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 77.0%.

Elmwood Elem School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elmwood Elem School has expanded 7%, going from 680 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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