Hawthorne Elem School

Hawthorne Elem School is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Elmhurst, Illinois, one of the schools within Elmhurst SD 205, enrolling 568 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Hawthorne Elem School sits 49% larger than that benchmark.

Hawthorne Elem School is one of 13 schools operated by Elmhurst SD 205, a district that caters to 8,280 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hawthorne Elem School lists that 74% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 10% of students at Hawthorne Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against DuPage County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hawthorne Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 77.8%, a residual of +11.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for DuPage County put the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Hawthorne Elem School is one.

York Comm High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hawthorne Elem School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 76.8%.

Hawthorne Elem School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hawthorne Elem School has climbed 15%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 8% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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