Emily G Johns School

Emily G Johns School is a 6-8 campus of mid-sized scale in Plano, Illinois, run under Plano CUSD 88, serveing 494 students in grades 4 through 6.

Within Plano CUSD 88, which oversees 5 schools and 2,398 students, Emily G Johns School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Emily G Johns School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 30% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Kendall County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Emily G Johns School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 57% of students at Emily G Johns School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Kendall County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Emily G Johns School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Around the school, Kendall County reports that median household income runs about $111,601, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Kendall County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,773 students), of which Emily G Johns School is one.

Plano Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Emily G Johns School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Emily G Johns School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Emily G Johns School has contracted 12%, going from 560 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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