Indian Prairie Elem School

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in Crystal Lake, Illinois, Indian Prairie Elem School hosts 496 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Crystal Lake CCSD 47. That puts it 30% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Indian Prairie Elem School is one of 12 schools operated by Crystal Lake CCSD 47, a district that instructs 6,889 students overall.

On demographics, Indian Prairie Elem School shows that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Indian Prairie Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +2.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for McHenry County indicate median household earnings sit near $104,802, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across McHenry County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), Indian Prairie Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Glacier Ridge Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Indian Prairie Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Indian Prairie Elem School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 506 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 72% to 66%.

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