Lowrie Elem School

Set in Elgin, Illinois, Lowrie Elem School is a reasonably sized primary school, overseen by SD U-46. It teaches 397 students across grades K through 6.

Across the 51 schools in SD U-46 (34,036 students total), Lowrie Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lowrie Elem School shows that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% Black, 5% White. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lowrie Elem School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at Lowrie Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kane County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lowrie Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 16.3%, a residual of -11.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kane County) records that the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Kane County runs 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), of which Lowrie Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Channing Memorial Elem School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lowrie Elem School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 400 students in 2018 compared to 397 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 10% to 5% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.