Longwood Elem School

Longwood Elem School is an average-sized K-5 school in Naperville, Illinois, one of the schools within Indian Prairie CUSD 204. The school works with 346 students in grades K through 5.

Indian Prairie CUSD 204 runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 26,108 students. Longwood Elem School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Longwood Elem School lists that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 23% White, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 5% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against DuPage County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Longwood Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.3%; Longwood Elem School posts 27.8%, -15.6 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for DuPage County indicate median household income runs about $112,096, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Longwood Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Thayer J Hill Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Longwood Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Longwood Elem School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 360 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 25% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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