Gary Elementary School

Gary Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in West Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within West Chicago ESD 33, with 425 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

West Chicago ESD 33 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,233 students. Gary Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Gary Elementary School reports that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 15% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Gary Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (DuPage County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Gary Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Early Learning Center, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Gary Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 564 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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