L D Brady Elem School

L D Brady Elem School operates as an intimate elementary school in Aurora, Illinois, one of the schools within Aurora East USD 131. Current enrollment sits at 310 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Aurora East USD 131 comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 12,187 students; L D Brady Elem School is among them.

In terms of who attends, L D Brady Elem School shows that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting L D Brady Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Kane County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, L D Brady Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.4%; L D Brady Elem School posts 10.9%, -21.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kane County put the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), L D Brady Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around L D Brady Elem School. On composite proficiency, L D Brady Elem School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. L D Brady Elem School's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 310). Class-load math has rose: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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