John R Tibbott Elem School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Bolingbrook, Illinois, John R Tibbott Elem School instructs 330 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Valley View CUSD 365U.

John R Tibbott Elem School is one of 20 schools operated by Valley View CUSD 365U, a district that caters to 14,710 students overall.

On the student-mix side, John R Tibbott Elem School reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 20% Black, 12% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Will County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, John R Tibbott Elem School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.3%; John R Tibbott Elem School posts 49.5%, +17.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Will County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), John R Tibbott Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Jonas E Salk Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, John R Tibbott Elem School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

John R Tibbott Elem School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John R Tibbott Elem School has decreased 40%, going from 550 students in 2018 to 330 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 76% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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