Enrollment
185
Elementary
DISTRICT 383 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUSD 200·NCES 174218004212
Hawthorne Elementary School
334 Wakeman Ave, Wheaton, IL 60187 · (630) 682-2065 · DuPage County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL185 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
8.1:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
68 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 31 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (28).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
76.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.5pp since 2023
Math
74.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +23.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 23 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.9% | 74.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.4% | 50.7% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hawthorne Elementary School
Hawthorne Elementary School's state test result (72.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne Elementary School this school | 185 | 36.8% | 72.8% |
| Stella May Swartz Elementary School Oakbrook Terrace | 167 | 38.9% | 58.5% |
| Ridge Family Center for Learning Elk Grove Village | 261 | 39.5% | 69.8% |
| Salt Creek Elementary School Elmhurst | 149 | 36.2% | N/A |
| Terrace Elementary School Des Plaines | 206 | 39.8% | 64.3% |
| Emerson Elementary School Wheaton | 263 | 30.4% | 67.5% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hawthorne Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In DuPage County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #89 of 1,925 | #19 of 112 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #149 of 2,077 ▲ 148 | #34 of 141 ▲ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #194 of 2,077 ▼ 6 | #40 of 141 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 185 | #2,096 of 2,419 | #152 of 163 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.8% | #1,629 of 2,132 | #54 of 123 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.2% | #229 of 1,461 | #10 of 92 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
185
-5 (-3%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 281
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 185 | 23 | 8.1:1 | 37% (68) |
| 2023-24 | 176 | 18.7 | 9.4:1 | 31% (54) |
| 2022-23 | 161 | 19.2 | 8.4:1 | 29% (47) |
| 2020-21 | 190 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 254 | 20.4 | 12.5:1 | 38% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 281 | 20 | 14.1:1 | 39% (109) |
| 2010-11 | 337 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 46% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 290 | 18 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 281 | 14 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hawthorne Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (254 to 185); teachers up 13% (20.4 to 23).
About Hawthorne Elementary School
Hawthorne Elementary School is a public elementary school run by CUSD 200 in Wheaton, Illinois. The student body numbers 185 students, from kindergarten through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381, so this school runs 51% smaller than that.
CUSD 200 is the district for Hawthorne Elementary School. It has 20 schools and 11,639 students.
Roughly 57% of students at Hawthorne Elementary School are White. The rest of enrollment is 21% Hispanic, 16% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of DuPage County, the White share is about 65%. The school's diversity index is 61%, meaning two students picked at random have a 61% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Hawthorne Elementary School operates with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 8.1:1. On average, elementary schools in Illinois have 13.9:1, compared with 8.1:1 here. Hawthorne Elementary School reports 37% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Hawthorne Elementary School is in the top 10% of Illinois schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 50.3%. The school's actual rate is 72.8%, 22.6 points higher.
DuPage County has about 930,024 residents, and the median household income is $112,096, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Besides Hawthorne Elementary School, DuPage County has 276 other public schools.
Franklin Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of Hawthorne Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hawthorne Elementary School is 2nd of 7 on proficiency.
Hawthorne Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Hawthorne Elementary School's enrollment declined 3%, to 185.
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DuPage County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,024
Census ACS
Median income
$112,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
138,557 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CUSD 200
- Wheaton Warrenville South High SchoolHigh · 1,864 students
- Wheaton North High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Monroe Middle SchoolMiddle · 716 students
- Hubble Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 635 students
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
Other schools in Wheaton
- Wheaton Warrenville South High SchoolHigh · 1,864 students
- Wheaton North High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Monroe Middle SchoolMiddle · 716 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 635 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 525 students
- Briar Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
Other Hawthorne Elementary schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Hawthorne Elementary. Hawthorne Elementary School is the 33rd largest of the 33.
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 568 students
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolHampton, GA · 813 students
- Hawthorne ElementaryRiverside, CA · 663 students
- Hawthorne ElementaryOntario, CA · 549 students
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolColumbus, OH · 538 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Middle School0.6 mi · 525
- Washington Elementary School0.6 mi · 395
- Wheaton North High School0.9 mi · 1,863
- Longfellow Elementary School0.9 mi · 318
- Hadley Junior High School1.1 mi · 1,143
- Lowell Elementary School1.2 mi · 283
Frequently asked questions
About Hawthorne Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hawthorne Elementary School?
Hawthorne Elementary School enrolls approximately 185 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Hawthorne Elementary School serve?
Hawthorne Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hawthorne Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hawthorne Elementary School is approximately 8.1:1 (23 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hawthorne Elementary School?
Hawthorne Elementary School reports a student body of 57% White, 21% Hispanic, 2% Black, 16% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Hawthorne Elementary School?
Hawthorne Elementary School is overseen by CUSD 200 in DuPage County.
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