Harriet Gifford Elem School

Located at 240 S Clifton Ave, in Elgin, Illinois, Harriet Gifford Elem School is a mid-sized elementary-level community that enrolls 460 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by SD U-46. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Harriet Gifford Elem School sits 21% above that benchmark.

Harriet Gifford Elem School is one of 51 schools operated by SD U-46, a district that instructs 34,036 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Harriet Gifford Elem School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Black, 5% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Harriet Gifford Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Harriet Gifford Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harriet Gifford Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.8%; this one delivers 22.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kane County) records that median household income runs about $103,163, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Harriet Gifford Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Larkin High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harriet Gifford Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Harriet Gifford Elem School's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 460). Over the same period, the Black share increased from 15% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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