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Kenneth E Neubert Elem School
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kenneth E Neubert Elem School
Kenneth E Neubert Elem School is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Algonquin, Illinois, operated by CUSD 300, with 445 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.
CUSD 300 comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 20,705 students; Kenneth E Neubert Elem School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Kenneth E Neubert Elem School shows that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Kenneth E Neubert Elem School reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kenneth E Neubert Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.0%; this one delivers 61.3%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (McHenry County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, McHenry County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), of which Kenneth E Neubert Elem School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Lake in the Hills Elem School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Kenneth E Neubert Elem School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.
Kenneth E Neubert Elem School operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Kenneth E Neubert Elem School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 438 (now 445).
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