Kimball Hill Elem School

Set in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, Kimball Hill Elem School is a mid-tier K-5 school, run under Palatine CCSD 15. It educates 524 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Palatine CCSD 15 runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 11,715 students. Kimball Hill Elem School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Kimball Hill Elem School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%; the rest is composed of 33% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 39% of students at Kimball Hill Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kimball Hill Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Kimball Hill Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carl Sandburg Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kimball Hill Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kimball Hill Elem School has edged down 15%, going from 619 students in 2018 to 524 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 42% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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