Glacier Ridge Elementary School

As a mid-tier primary school in Crystal Lake, Illinois, Glacier Ridge Elementary School caters to 360 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Crystal Lake CCSD 47.

Across the 12 schools in Crystal Lake CCSD 47 (6,889 students total), Glacier Ridge Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Glacier Ridge Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 13% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, McHenry County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Glacier Ridge Elementary School reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, Glacier Ridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 51.4%, a residual of -3.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (McHenry County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across McHenry County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), Glacier Ridge Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Woods Creek Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glacier Ridge Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Glacier Ridge Elementary School's enrollment has declined 44% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 360). Over the same period, the White share declined from 77% to 68%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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