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What's the most underrated thing about Iroquois Community School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
411
Elementary
DISTRICT 363 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CCSD 62·NCES 171212001465
Iroquois Community School
1836 E Touhy Ave, Des Plaines, IL 60018 · (847) 824-1308 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL411 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest 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.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
12.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
116 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 48 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 17% smaller than its 8th grade class (48).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
77.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.9pp since 2023
Math
60.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.0pp 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 61 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.1% | 60.8% |
| 2023-24 | 68.2% | 49.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Iroquois Community School
Iroquois Community School's state test result (68.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iroquois Community School this school | 411 | 28.2% | 68.2% |
| Thurgood Marshall Elementary Rockford | 374 | 35.3% | 97.8% |
| Colene Hoose Elementary School Normal | 413 | 34.1% | 41.4% |
| Ridgeview Elementary School Peoria | 433 | 30.9% | 56.1% |
| Hawthorn Aspen Elementary School Vernon Hills | 313 | 23.6% | 61.4% |
| Brookdale Elementary School Naperville | 462 | 30.1% | 64.0% |
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 Iroquois Community School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #156 of 1,925 | #57 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #395 of 2,077 ▼ 84 | #133 of 829 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #188 of 2,077 ▼ 61 | #77 of 829 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 411 | #953 of 2,419 | #411 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #582 of 2,035 | #287 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.8% | #372 of 2,042 | #149 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.2% | #1,813 of 2,132 | #717 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.3% | #648 of 1,461 | #352 of 661 |
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
411
-62 (-13%) vs 2020
+74% since 1990-91, when it was 236
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 | 411 | 34 | 12.1:1 | 28% (116) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 35 | 12.1:1 | 30% (125) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 33 | 13.1:1 | 30% (130) |
| 2020-21 | 473 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 485 | 29 | 16.7:1 | 18% (86) |
| 2015-16 | 482 | 29 | 16.6:1 | 22% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 462 | 28 | 16.5:1 | 23% (104) |
| 2000-01 | 431 | 30 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 236 | 27 | 8.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Iroquois Community School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (485 to 411); teachers up 17% (29 to 34).
About Iroquois Community School
Iroquois Community School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Des Plaines, Illinois. The school offers kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 411 students.
The district for Iroquois Community School is CCSD 62, with 11 schools and 4,520 students.
The largest group at Iroquois Community School is White students, at 51%. Other students are 23% Hispanic, 19% Asian, and 5% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Iroquois Community School scores 65%.
Teacher count: 34 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.1:1. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 1.8 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 28%. That is 38 points below the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Iroquois Community 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 89% of Illinois public elementary schools.
In Illinois, Iroquois Community School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 68.2% actual against a predicted 55.2%.
The school's county is Cook County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Iroquois Community School among them.
Iroquois Community School's nearest public school is Orchard Place Elementary School (about 0.5 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Iroquois Community School. By average proficiency, Iroquois Community School is 1st among 5 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around Iroquois Community School as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
A 13% decrease took enrollment from 473 in 2020-21 to 411 in 2024-25.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CCSD 62
- Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Chippewa Middle SchoolMiddle · 652 students
- North Elementary SchoolElementary · 599 students
- Algonquin Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 322 students
- Plainfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
Other schools in Des Plaines
- Maine West High SchoolHigh · 1,857 students
- Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Chippewa Middle SchoolMiddle · 652 students
- Friendship Jr High SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- North Elementary SchoolElementary · 599 students
- Algonquin Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
Nearby schools
- Orchard Place Elementary School0.5 mi · 258
- South Elementary School0.8 mi · 253
- Plainfield Elementary School1.4 mi · 285
- George B Carpenter Elementary School1.4 mi · 435
- Maine South High School1.5 mi · 2,494
- Rosemont Elementary School1.5 mi · 221
Frequently asked questions
About Iroquois Community SchoolHow many students attend Iroquois Community School?
Iroquois Community School enrolls approximately 411 students in grades KG-08.
Is Iroquois Community School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Iroquois Community School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Iroquois Community School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Iroquois Community School.
How diverse is Iroquois Community School?
Iroquois Community School reports a student body of 51% White, 23% Hispanic, 2% Black, 19% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Iroquois Community School in?
Iroquois Community School is part of CCSD 62.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.