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Enrollment
593
Elementary
DISTRICT 512 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SD 25·NCES 170414000097
Ivy Hill Elementary School
2211 N Burke Dr, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 · (847) 398-4275 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL593 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% 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
14.5:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
143 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
63%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
74.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.7pp since 2023
Math
72.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +14.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.7% | 72.6% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 58.4% |
% 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
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 14 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 Ivy Hill Elementary School
Ivy Hill Elementary School's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivy Hill Elementary School this school | 593 | 24.1% | 72.0% |
| Ranch View Elementary School Naperville | 584 | 18.8% | 75.9% |
| Hawthorn Elementary School South Vernon Hills | 505 | 30.7% | 48.9% |
| Westbrook Elementary School Glenview | 467 | 32.1% | N/A |
| Freedom Elementary School Plainfield | 526 | 26.8% | 72.8% |
| Glen Grove Elementary School Glenview | 398 | 30.2% | 75.5% |
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 Ivy Hill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #98 of 1,925 | #37 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #174 of 2,077 no change | #68 of 829 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #235 of 2,077 ▼ 41 | #91 of 829 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 593 | #284 of 2,419 | #160 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,386 of 2,035 | #619 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #461 of 2,042 | #175 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.1% | #1,883 of 2,132 | #732 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.2% | #1,067 of 1,461 | #519 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
593
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
+85% since 1990-91, when it was 320
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 | 593 | 41 | 14.5:1 | 24% (143) |
| 2023-24 | 565 | 36.8 | 15.4:1 | 22% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 36.9 | 15.7:1 | 18% (102) |
| 2020-21 | 608 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 639 | 41.2 | 15.5:1 | 8% (50) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 1% (7) |
| 2010-11 | 442 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 10% (43) |
| 2000-01 | 385 | 28 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 320 | 19 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ivy Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (639 to 593); teachers down 1% (41.2 to 41).
About Ivy Hill Elementary School
Ivy Hill Elementary School is a large elementary school located in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The school counted 593 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. That is 56% bigger than the average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Arlington Heights SD 25 is the local district for Ivy Hill Elementary School. It runs 9 schools with 5,423 students.
White students account for 47% of enrollment at Ivy Hill Elementary School, more than any other group. Other groups include 36% Asian and 15% Hispanic. Cook County residents are about 44% White, a similar share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 63%.
There are 41 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 14.5:1. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is close to this figure. On the income side, 24% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Cook County, the average is 66%.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Ivy Hill Elementary School outscored 93%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Ivy Hill Elementary School is among the top 10% of schools in Illinois. Predicted: 57.6%. Actual: 72.0%.
In Cook County, median household income comes to about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
J W Riley Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ivy Hill Elementary School places 2nd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Ivy Hill Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (608) to 2024-25 (593).
This page is set up for the Ivy Hill Elementary School community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Arlington Heights SD 25
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,024 students
- South Middle SchoolMiddle · 812 students
- Olive-Mary Stitt SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Westgate Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
- Dryden Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Windsor Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
Other schools in Arlington Heights
- John Hersey High SchoolHigh · 2,040 students
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,024 students
- South Middle SchoolMiddle · 812 students
- Olive-Mary Stitt SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Westgate Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
- Dryden Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
Other Ivy Hill Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Ivy Hill Elementary. Ivy Hill Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Ivy Hill Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 488 students
Nearby schools
- J W Riley Elementary School0.9 mi · 319
- Thomas Middle School1.0 mi · 1,024
- Edgar A Poe Elementary School1.0 mi · 317
- John Hersey High School1.1 mi · 2,040
- Olive-Mary Stitt School1.2 mi · 671
- MacArthur Middle School1.3 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Ivy Hill Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ivy Hill Elementary School?
Ivy Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 593 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Ivy Hill Elementary School serve?
Ivy Hill Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ivy Hill Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ivy Hill Elementary School is approximately 14.5:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Ivy Hill Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ivy Hill Elementary School are roughly 47% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 36% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Ivy Hill Elementary School public or private?
Ivy Hill Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Arlington Heights SD 25.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.