J T Manning Elem School
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Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)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 72 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 21 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% 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 16 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About J T Manning Elem School
J T Manning Elem School operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Westmont, Illinois, overseen by CUSD 201. Current enrollment sits at 386 students spanning grades 2 through 5.
Across the 5 schools in CUSD 201 (1,330 students total), J T Manning Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, J T Manning Elem School shows that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting J T Manning Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at J T Manning Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, J T Manning Elem School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 53.3%; this one delivers 68.8%, a residual of +15.5 points.
In the broader community, census data for DuPage County shows median household earnings sit near $112,096, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), J T Manning Elem School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: C E Miller Elem School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J T Manning Elem School.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Five-year trend. J T Manning Elem School's enrollment has increased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 329 (now 386). White enrollment moved from 67% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.
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