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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 492 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VALLEY VIEW CUSD 365U·NCES 174007004029
Irene King Elementary School
301 Eaton Ave, Romeoville, IL 60446 · (815) 886-3380 · Will County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Illinois public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
340 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 56%
Community
6
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 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
58.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
48.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.3% | 48.3% |
| 2023-24 | 42.3% | 37.4% |
% 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
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% 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 15 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 Irene King Elementary School
Irene King Elementary School's state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irene King Elementary School this school | 533 | 63.8% | 49.6% |
| Yankee Ridge Multilingual School Urbana | 482 | 62.9% | N/A |
| Robert C Hill Elementary School Romeoville | 547 | 62.2% | 45.6% |
| Creekside Elementary School Elgin | 469 | 62.5% | 25.5% |
| Boulder Hill Elementary School Montgomery | 476 | 58.8% | 31.3% |
| Chicago Academy Elementary School Chicago | 548 | 63.1% | 41.0% |
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 Irene King Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #603 of 1,925 | #46 of 94 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #720 of 2,077 ▼ 114 | #54 of 100 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #739 of 2,077 ▼ 8 | #54 of 100 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #425 of 2,419 | #36 of 116 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #1,985 of 2,035 | #104 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.0% | #747 of 2,042 | #60 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.8% | #897 of 2,132 | #29 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.7% | #481 of 615 | #27 of 36 |
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
533
0 (0%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 471
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 | 533 | 27 | 19.7:1 | 64% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 510 | 26 | 19.6:1 | 64% (327) |
| 2022-23 | 509 | 30.7 | 16.6:1 | 66% (337) |
| 2020-21 | 533 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 514 | 38.3 | 13.4:1 | 74% (380) |
| 2015-16 | 534 | 32 | 16.7:1 | 72% (386) |
| 2010-11 | 592 | 32 | 18.5:1 | 60% (358) |
| 2000-01 | 736 | 31 | 23.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 471 | 24 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Irene King Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (514 to 533); teachers down 30% (38.3 to 27).
About Irene King Elementary School
In Romeoville, Illinois, part of Will County, Irene King Elementary School is an elementary school. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 533 students. The school is 40% larger than the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
District-wide, Valley View CUSD 365U has 20 schools and 14,710 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Irene King Elementary School is 63%, a majority. The remaining students are 21% White, 10% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Will County is about 20% Hispanic. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at Irene King Elementary School are from different groups.
Irene King Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 19.7:1. The school's 19.7:1 compares with an average of 13.9:1 for elementary schools in Illinois. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 64%. The 44% average for public schools in Will County is 20 points lower.
Irene King Elementary School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 78% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Schools in Illinois with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 34.7%. Irene King Elementary School posts 49.6%, 14.9 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
For the population of Will County, the median household earns about $109,984 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Will County, 209 public schools serve about 113,008 students.
About 0.7 miles separate Irene King Elementary School from the closest public school, A Vito Martinez Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 49.6%; Irene King Elementary School's is 49.6%, ranking 4th of 8.
NCES describes the area around Irene King Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 533 students in 2020-21 and 533 in 2024-25.
Irene King Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Valley View CUSD 365U
- Bolingbrook High SchoolHigh · 3,298 students
- Romeoville High SchoolHigh · 1,848 students
- Brooks Middle SchoolMiddle · 850 students
- Oak View Elementary SchoolElementary · 636 students
- Independence Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Hubert H Humphrey Middle SchoolMiddle · 596 students
Other schools in Romeoville
- Romeoville High SchoolHigh · 1,848 students
- John J Lukancic Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- A Vito Martinez Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Robert C Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
- Skoff ElementaryElementary · 542 students
- Dr. James Mitchem Erly Chldhd CenterElementary · 515 students
Nearby schools
- A Vito Martinez Middle School0.7 mi · 583
- Romeoville High School0.7 mi · 1,848
- Robert C Hill Elementary School1.1 mi · 547
- John J Lukancic Middle School1.2 mi · 591
- Skoff Elementary1.3 mi · 542
- Dr. James Mitchem Erly Chldhd Center1.6 mi · 515
Frequently asked questions
About Irene King Elementary SchoolHow large is Irene King Elementary School?
Irene King Elementary School enrolls approximately 533 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Irene King Elementary School serve?
Irene King Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Irene King Elementary School?
Approximately 19.7:1 students per teacher at Irene King Elementary School.
How diverse is Irene King Elementary School?
Irene King Elementary School reports a student body of 21% White, 63% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Irene King Elementary School in?
Irene King Elementary School is part of Valley View CUSD 365U.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.