Horizon Elem School

Horizon Elem School is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in Hanover Park, Illinois, run under SD U-46, hosting 436 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 51 schools in SD U-46 (34,036 students total), Horizon Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Horizon Elem School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% White, 15% Black, 14% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Horizon Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Horizon Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for DuPage County indicate median household earnings sit near $112,096, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), Horizon Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Greenbrook Elem School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Horizon Elem School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Horizon Elem School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Horizon Elem School's enrollment has contracted 29% since 2018, when it stood at 617 (now 436). The Black share of enrollment expanded from 10% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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