Jackson Elem School

Jackson Elem School, a reasonably sized elementary campus in Elmhurst, Illinois, run under Elmhurst SD 205, instructs 422 students, covering grades K through 5.

Elmhurst SD 205 runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,280 students. Jackson Elem School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jackson Elem School lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Jackson Elem School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, DuPage County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jackson Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.1%; this one delivers 75.2%.

In the broader community, census data for DuPage County shows the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Jackson Elem School is one of 277 public schools in DuPage County (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bryan Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jackson Elem School. On composite proficiency, Jackson Elem School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Jackson Elem School's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 434 (now 422). White enrollment moved from 79% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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