Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad

As a tight-knit 6-8 campus in Aurora, Illinois, Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad teaches 284 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Aurora East USD 131. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad sits 39% below that benchmark.

Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad is one of 18 schools operated by Aurora East USD 131, a district that caters to 12,187 students overall.

On demographics, Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad lists that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 7% White, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 67.6%, a residual of +27.6 points.

In the broader community, Kane County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,163, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad is one campus in the mix.

L D Brady Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad's enrollment has shrank 37% since 2018, when it stood at 449 (now 284). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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