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Enrollment
663
Elementary
DISTRICT 531 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALATINE CCSD 15·NCES 173042005441
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School
4335 Haman Ave, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 · (847) 963-7200 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL663 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
87 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 130 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
65.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +21.7pp since 2023
Math
62.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +13.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.1% | 62.1% |
| 2023-24 | 43.4% | 48.6% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Frank C Whiteley Elementary School
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School's state test result (62.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank C Whiteley Elementary School this school | 663 | 13.1% | 62.2% |
| Benjamin Elementary School Bloomington | 607 | 11.0% | 58.4% |
| Ranch View Elementary School Naperville | 584 | 18.8% | 75.9% |
| Spring Brook Elementary School Naperville | 569 | 6.0% | 76.1% |
| Steeple Run Elementary School Naperville | 622 | 21.1% | 68.8% |
| Grove Elementary School Normal | 519 | 14.6% | 71.3% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Frank C Whiteley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #268 of 1,925 | #89 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.1% | #367 of 2,077 ▼ 30 | #125 of 829 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #497 of 2,077 ▲ 190 | #169 of 829 ▲ 55 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 663 | #167 of 2,419 | #102 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #1,867 of 2,035 | #767 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #503 of 2,042 | #192 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.1% | #2,059 of 2,132 | #777 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.8% | #215 of 615 | #60 of 186 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
663
+140 (+27%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 708
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 663 | 38.5 | 17.2:1 | 13% (87) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 36.2 | 15.6:1 | 21% (117) |
| 2022-23 | 555 | 36.3 | 15.3:1 | 19% (103) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 588 | 37.6 | 15.7:1 | 16% (96) |
| 2015-16 | 610 | 34 | 17.9:1 | 12% (71) |
| 2010-11 | 617 | 31 | 19.9:1 | 6% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 691 | 36 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 708 | 37 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Frank C Whiteley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (588 to 663); teachers up 2% (37.6 to 38.5).
About Frank C Whiteley Elementary School
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School is a large elementary school in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, (ZIP code 60192). Enrollment stands at 663 students, covering kindergarten through 5. The school is 74% larger than the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School falls under Palatine CCSD 15, which has 20 schools enrolling 11,715 students.
White students are 53% of those enrolled at Frank C Whiteley Elementary School. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Black. In Cook County overall, about 44% of residents are White. A diversity index of 62% means there is a 62% chance two randomly chosen students at Frank C Whiteley Elementary School are from different groups.
The school lists 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Of all students at Frank C Whiteley Elementary School, 13% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.2% and a predicted 63.9%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Frank C Whiteley Elementary School.
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Thomas Jefferson Middle School, about 0.8 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Frank C Whiteley Elementary School ranks 5th of 6 nearby schools, at 62.2% versus a 67.5% average.
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 140 students, from 523 to 663.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palatine CCSD 15
- Plum Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,128 students
- Winston Campus Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 772 students
- Virginia Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Walter R Sundling Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Gray M Sanborn Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
Other schools in Hoffman Estates
- J B Conant High SchoolHigh · 2,633 students
- Hoffman Estates High SchoolHigh · 2,185 students
- Dwight D Eisenhower Junior High SchoolMiddle · 662 students
- Lakeview Elementary SchoolElementary · 504 students
- John Muir Literacy AcademyElementary · 498 students
- Neil Armstrong Elementary SchoolElementary · 498 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School0.8 mi · 621
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School0.8 mi · 394
- Marion Jordan Elementary School1.6 mi · 503
- Hunting Ridge Elementary School1.8 mi · 639
- Wm Fremd High School2.0 mi · 2,689
- Barrington Mdle School- Prairie Cmps2.2 mi · 980
Frequently asked questions
About Frank C Whiteley Elementary SchoolHow large is Frank C Whiteley Elementary School?
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School enrolls approximately 663 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Frank C Whiteley Elementary School serve?
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Frank C Whiteley Elementary School?
Approximately 17.2:1 students per teacher at Frank C Whiteley Elementary School.
How diverse is Frank C Whiteley Elementary School?
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School reports a student body of 53% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 30% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Frank C Whiteley Elementary School?
Frank C Whiteley Elementary School is overseen by Palatine CCSD 15 in Cook County.
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