Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary

Set in Aurora, Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary is a sizable K-5 school, run under Indian Prairie CUSD 204. It hosts 683 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 79% bigger than typical.

Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary is one of 32 schools operated by Indian Prairie CUSD 204, a district that serves 26,108 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Asian (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 23% White, 15% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, DuPage County as a whole is about 13% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 18% of students at Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of +8.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for DuPage County indicate the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Francis Granger Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 775 (now 683). White enrollment moved from 39% to 23% across the same window.

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