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Enrollment
520
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE ZURICH CUSD 95·NCES 172190000518
Isaac Fox Elementary School
395 W Cuba Rd, Lake Zurich, IL 60047 · (847) 540-7020 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL520 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% 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.
- A-Beats 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
16.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
81 students
DISTRICT 21% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
78.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.7pp since 2023
Math
69.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.1% | 69.1% |
| 2023-24 | 68.4% | 59.2% |
% 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
71.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Isaac Fox Elementary School
Isaac Fox Elementary School's state test result (71.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac Fox Elementary School this school | 520 | 15.6% | 71.8% |
| Windsor Elementary School Arlington Heights | 490 | 16.7% | 69.5% |
| Westgate Elementary School Arlington Heights | 633 | 14.7% | 65.2% |
| Pleasantdale Elementary School La Grange | 466 | 17.0% | 74.9% |
| River Valley School Lemont | 588 | 18.4% | 65.1% |
| Dryden Elementary School Arlington Heights | 521 | 21.1% | 68.0% |
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 Isaac Fox Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #100 of 1,925 | #6 of 69 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #237 of 2,077 ▼ 73 | #29 of 102 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.1% | #174 of 2,077 ▼ 50 | #23 of 102 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 520 | #471 of 2,419 | #21 of 121 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #1,814 of 2,035 | #110 of 114 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.4% | #1,364 of 2,042 | #97 of 114 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.6% | #2,029 of 2,132 | #79 of 82 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #930 of 1,461 | #40 of 71 |
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
520
-47 (-8%) vs 2020
-4% since 2000-01, when it was 539
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 | 520 | 31.2 | 16.7:1 | 16% (81) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 31.3 | 16.3:1 | 16% (82) |
| 2022-23 | 525 | 31.1 | 16.9:1 | 10% (51) |
| 2020-21 | 567 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 33.7 | 17.1:1 | 7% (42) |
| 2015-16 | 511 | 30 | 17.0:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2010-11 | 552 | 33 | 16.7:1 | 5% (28) |
| 2000-01 | 539 | 34 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Isaac Fox Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (576 to 520); teachers down 8% (33.7 to 31.2).
About Isaac Fox Elementary School
Isaac Fox Elementary School is a public elementary school in Lake Zurich, Illinois. It reported 520 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
Isaac Fox Elementary School is a school in Lake Zurich CUSD 95. The district has 8 schools and 5,772 students.
White students are 82% of those enrolled at Isaac Fox Elementary School. Other reported shares: 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 61% White among all Lake County residents. A diversity index of 31% means there is a 31% chance two randomly chosen students at Isaac Fox Elementary School are from different groups.
The school has 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 16.7 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Of all students at Isaac Fox Elementary School, 16% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Lake County average 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Isaac Fox Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 87% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Isaac Fox Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (71.8%) and its predicted rate (62.5%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
The school's county is Lake County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $110,416 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 48% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Isaac Fox Elementary School shares Lake County with 213 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Isaac Fox Elementary School is closest to Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Isaac Fox Elementary School is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 520 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 567.
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Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
714,223
Census ACS
Median income
$110,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
118,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lake Zurich CUSD 95
- Lake Zurich High SchoolHigh · 1,839 students
- Lake Zurich Middle - N CampusMiddle · 697 students
- May Whitney Elementary SchoolElementary · 677 students
- Lake Zurich Middle - S CampusMiddle · 599 students
- Spencer Loomis Elementary SchoolElementary · 516 students
- Seth Paine Elementary SchoolElementary · 495 students
Other schools in Lake Zurich
- Lake Zurich High SchoolHigh · 1,839 students
- May Whitney Elementary SchoolElementary · 677 students
- Lake Zurich Middle - S CampusMiddle · 599 students
- Sarah Adams Elementary SchoolElementary · 429 students
- Lake Zurich CUSD 95 Young Adult CHigh
Nearby schools
- Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus0.1 mi · 599
- Sarah Adams Elementary School1.1 mi · 429
- May Whitney Elementary School1.7 mi · 677
- Lake Zurich High School2.0 mi · 1,839
- Arnett C Lines Elementary School2.4 mi · 501
- Barrington Middle School Station2.5 mi · 886
Frequently asked questions
About Isaac Fox Elementary SchoolHow large is Isaac Fox Elementary School?
Isaac Fox Elementary School enrolls approximately 520 students in grades KG-05.
Is Isaac Fox Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Isaac Fox Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Isaac Fox Elementary School have?
Isaac Fox Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Isaac Fox Elementary School?
Student demographics at Isaac Fox Elementary School are roughly 82% White, 7% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Isaac Fox Elementary School in?
Isaac Fox Elementary School is part of Lake Zurich CUSD 95.
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