Goodwin Elem School

Located at 18 Poplar Pl, in North Aurora, Illinois, Goodwin Elem School is a small elementary campus that instructs 315 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Aurora West USD 129.

Across the 16 schools in Aurora West USD 129 (11,020 students total), Goodwin Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Goodwin Elem School lists that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 36% White, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Goodwin Elem School lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Goodwin Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kane County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Goodwin Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of -13.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kane County indicate median household income runs about $103,163, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Goodwin Elem School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).

Jewel Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Goodwin Elem School. On composite proficiency, Goodwin Elem School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

Goodwin Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 381 students in 2018 compared to 315 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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