Enrollment
274
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COMM CONS SD 59·NCES 171377001722
Juliette Low Elementary School
1530 S Highland Ave, Arlington Heights, IL 60005 · (847) 593-4383 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL274 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
8.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
162 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 43% larger than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
42.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.9pp since 2023
Math
39.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +12.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.2% | 39.7% |
| 2023-24 | 33.3% | 27.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Juliette Low Elementary School
Juliette Low Elementary School's state test result (39.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juliette Low Elementary School this school | 274 | 59.1% | 39.9% |
| South Elementary School Des Plaines | 253 | 55.3% | 50.5% |
| Plainfield Elementary School Des Plaines | 285 | 61.1% | 50.1% |
| Elsie C Johnson Elementary School Hanover Park | 253 | 57.3% | 41.0% |
| Reskin Elementary School Glendale Hts | 294 | 63.6% | 36.8% |
| Hanover Countryside Elementary School Streamwood | 371 | 50.9% | 37.0% |
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 Juliette Low Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #918 of 1,925 | #245 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #973 of 2,077 ▼ 68 | #290 of 829 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #1,278 of 2,077 ▼ 244 | #428 of 829 ▼ 90 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 274 | #1,686 of 2,419 | #694 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.4:1 | #28 of 2,035 | #19 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.2% | #299 of 2,042 | #127 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.1% | #1,042 of 2,132 | #549 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.5% | #248 of 1,461 | #158 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
274
-27 (-9%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 304
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 | 274 | 32.5 | 8.4:1 | 59% (162) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 29.3 | 9.4:1 | 63% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 270 | 25.7 | 10.5:1 | 61% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 301 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 373 | 31.5 | 11.8:1 | 64% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 415 | 34 | 12.2:1 | 67% (279) |
| 2010-11 | 383 | 26 | 14.7:1 | 47% (181) |
| 2000-01 | 429 | 27 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 304 | 18 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Juliette Low Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (373 to 274); teachers up 3% (31.5 to 32.5).
About Juliette Low Elementary School
Juliette Low Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 274 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Illinois is roughly 381 students; this school is 28% smaller than that.
The Comm Cons SD 59 system has 15 schools and 5,869 students.
At Juliette Low Elementary School, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 46%. After that, the student body is 34% White, 12% Asian, 5% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Cook County is about 27% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 66%, meaning two students picked at random have a 66% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 8.4 students per teacher and 32.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch.
Juliette Low Elementary School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 49% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 37.4% for a school in Illinois with Juliette Low Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Juliette Low Elementary School posts 39.9%.
Census estimates describe Cook County this way: the median household income is $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Cook County has 1,406 public schools and roughly 697,934 students.
The closest other public school is Holmes Jr High School, about 1.0 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Juliette Low Elementary School is 6th of 7 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Juliette Low Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Juliette Low Elementary School's enrollment dropped from 301 in 2020-21 to 274 in 2024-25.
The Juliette Low Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Comm Cons SD 59
- Grove Jr High SchoolMiddle · 741 students
- Friendship Jr High SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- Holmes Jr High SchoolMiddle · 459 students
- Salt Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Clearmont Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- John Jay Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 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
- Ivy Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 593 students
Nearby schools
- Holmes Jr High School1.0 mi · 459
- Forest View Elementary School1.1 mi · 339
- The Early Learning Center1.1 mi · 270
- Dryden Elementary School1.3 mi · 521
- John Jay Elementary School1.4 mi · 389
- South Middle School1.4 mi · 812
Frequently asked questions
About Juliette Low Elementary SchoolHow large is Juliette Low Elementary School?
Juliette Low Elementary School enrolls approximately 274 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Juliette Low Elementary School serve?
Juliette Low Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Juliette Low Elementary School?
Approximately 8.4:1 students per teacher at Juliette Low Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Juliette Low Elementary School?
Student demographics at Juliette Low Elementary School are roughly 34% White, 46% Hispanic, 5% Black, 12% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Juliette Low Elementary School?
Juliette Low Elementary School is overseen by Comm Cons SD 59 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.