Leggee Elementary School

As a big elementary-level community in Huntley, Illinois, Leggee Elementary School caters to 877 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Huntley Comm Sch Dist 158. Enrollment runs roughly 130% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Leggee Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Huntley Comm Sch Dist 158, a district that hosts 8,401 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Leggee Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 18% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, McHenry County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Leggee Elementary School records 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 18% of students at Leggee Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against McHenry County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Leggee Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +5.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for McHenry County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Leggee Elementary School is one of 89 public schools in McHenry County (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students).

Nearest neighbor: Huntley High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Leggee Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 870 students in 2018 compared to 877 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 75% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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