Enrollment
243
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD SD 205·NCES 173451006154
Jackson Charter School
315 Summit St, Rockford, IL 61107 · (815) 316-0093 · Winnebago County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL243 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Illinois public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
45.0:1
5 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
88 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
14.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.5pp since 2023
Math
7.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.9% | 7.0% |
| 2023-24 | 8.4% | 2.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
9.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-40.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Jackson Charter School
Jackson Charter School's state test result (9.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Charter School this school | 243 | 36.2% | 9.8% |
| Poe Elementary Classical School Chicago | 224 | 32.6% | 81.7% |
| McDade Elementary Classical School Chicago | 207 | 36.2% | 85.7% |
| Kellogg Elementary School Chicago | 299 | 31.8% | 53.6% |
| Zenon J Sykuta School Country Club Hills | 273 | 45.4% | N/A |
| Richton Square School Richton Park | 161 | 36.0% | N/A |
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 Jackson Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Winnebago County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.8% | #1,883 of 1,925 | #42 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.0% | #1,989 of 2,077 ▲ 16 | #42 of 44 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #2,014 of 2,077 ▼ 35 | #41 of 44 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 243 | #1,866 of 2,419 | #49 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 45.0:1 | #2,033 of 2,035 | #48 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.3% | #1,194 of 2,042 | #41 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.2% | #1,644 of 2,132 | #42 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.2% | #49 of 1,461 | #1 of 28 |
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
243
+34 (+16%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 252
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 | 243 | 5.4 | 45.0:1 | 36% (88) |
| 2023-24 | 245 | 8.3 | 29.6:1 | 36% (88) |
| 2022-23 | 231 | 10.2 | 22.6:1 | 81% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 209 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 18 | 22.9:1 | 29% (118) |
| 2015-16 | 487 | 33 | 14.8:1 | 27% (133) |
| 2010-11 | 252 | 15 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jackson Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students down 41% (413 to 243); teachers down 70% (18 to 5.4).
About Jackson Charter School
Jackson Charter School is a small elementary school. Its address is in Rockford, Illinois. In all, 243 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5. The school is 36% below the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Rockford SD 205 oversees Jackson Charter School and 43 other schools, with 28,467 students in total.
The student body at Jackson Charter School is 77% Black. The school is also 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 6% White. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 12%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 38, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 5.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 45.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A total of 88 students, or 36%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Winnebago County average 61%.
Jackson Charter School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 0% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Jackson Charter School is 50.6%. It actually posts 9.8%, which is 40.8 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Looking at the county, Winnebago County, the median household earns about $65,837 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Jackson Charter School, Winnebago County has 94 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Abraham Lincoln Middle School is closest at about 0.4 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Jackson Charter School places 5th of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 34 students, from 209 to 243.
This community page is for conversations about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Winnebago County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
283,292
Census ACS
Median income
$65,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
44,103 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockford SD 205
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other schools in Rockford
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Nearby schools
- Abraham Lincoln Middle School0.4 mi · 736
- Constance Lane Elementary School1.1 mi · 623
- Haskell Elementary School1.4 mi · 301
- Roosevelt Center1.4 mi · 60
- C Henry Bloom Elementary School1.4 mi · 426
- Rockford East High School1.5 mi · 1,719
Frequently asked questions
About Jackson Charter SchoolHow large is Jackson Charter School?
Jackson Charter School enrolls approximately 243 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Jackson Charter School serve?
Jackson Charter School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Jackson Charter School?
Approximately 45.0:1 students per teacher at Jackson Charter School.
What is the student diversity at Jackson Charter School?
Student demographics at Jackson Charter School are roughly 6% White, 7% Hispanic, 77% Black, 10% Two or more.
Is Jackson Charter School public or private?
Jackson Charter School is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Rockford SD 205.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.