Enrollment
360
Elementary
DISTRICT 427 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AURORA EAST USD 131·NCES 170468000151
Mabel O Donnell Elementary School
1640 Reckinger Rd, Aurora, IL 60505 · (630) 299-8300 · Kane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL360 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
229 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 51 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
17.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.9pp since 2023
Math
10.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.9% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 11.0% | 4.5% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mabel O Donnell Elementary School
Mabel O Donnell Elementary School's state test result (16.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mabel O Donnell Elementary School this school | 360 | 63.6% | 16.8% |
| H R McCall Elementary School Waukegan | 396 | 61.1% | 35.6% |
| Heritage Elementary School Streamwood | 359 | 67.1% | 31.4% |
| Greenwood Elementary School Waukegan | 318 | 61.3% | 28.2% |
| Smith Elementary School Aurora | 425 | 60.5% | 22.0% |
| Moos Elementary School Chicago | 434 | 66.8% | 22.0% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mabel O Donnell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,708 of 1,925 | #60 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #1,900 of 2,077 ▼ 12 | #81 of 83 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #1,969 of 2,077 ▼ 69 | #79 of 83 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 360 | #1,205 of 2,419 | #70 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #1,090 of 2,035 | #28 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.8% | #1,065 of 2,042 | #36 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.6% | #900 of 2,132 | #24 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #977 of 1,461 | #34 of 51 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
360
-30 (-8%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 470
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 360 | 26.5 | 13.6:1 | 64% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 368 | 26.4 | 14.0:1 | 70% (258) |
| 2022-23 | 378 | 27.1 | 13.9:1 | 72% (271) |
| 2020-21 | 390 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 395 | 32 | 12.3:1 | 77% (305) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 28 | 16.9:1 | 68% (323) |
| 2010-11 | 487 | 27 | 18.0:1 | 67% (326) |
| 2000-01 | 446 | 26 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 470 | 24 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mabel O Donnell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (395 to 360); teachers down 17% (32 to 26.5).
About Mabel O Donnell Elementary School
Mabel O Donnell Elementary School is an elementary school in Aurora, Illinois, and it is part of Aurora East USD 131. A federal count lists 360 students at the school, in pre-K through 5.
Aurora East USD 131 has 18 schools; together they serve 12,187 students.
Roughly 73% of students at Mabel O Donnell Elementary School are Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 15% Black, 5% White, and 4% Asian. Among people living in Kane County, the Hispanic share is about 33%. The school's diversity index is 44%, meaning two students picked at random have a 44% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The ratio of students to teachers is 13.6:1, with 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 64%. Compared with the 48% average for public schools in Kane County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, Mabel O Donnell Elementary School receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 16.8%, is 18.0 points below the 34.8% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Kane County census figures show that the median household income is $103,163, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Kane County is home to 167 public schools and about 87,252 public school students.
The closest public school, C F Simmons Middle School, is about 0.8 miles from Mabel O Donnell Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Mabel O Donnell Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 360 students in 2024-25, 30 fewer than the 390 it had in 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Mabel O Donnell Elementary School covering things like sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Aurora East USD 131
- East High SchoolHigh · 4,020 students
- Henry W Cowherd Middle SchoolMiddle · 807 students
- C F Simmons Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
- K D Waldo Middle SchoolMiddle · 729 students
- Olney C Allen Elementary SchoolElementary · 712 students
- C M Bardwell Elementary SchoolElementary · 679 students
Other schools in Aurora
- East High SchoolHigh · 4,020 students
- West Aurora High SchoolHigh · 3,641 students
- Waubonsie Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,849 students
- Metea Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,766 students
- Francis Granger Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Fischer Middle SchoolMiddle · 861 students
Nearby schools
- C F Simmons Middle School0.8 mi · 792
- Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School1.2 mi · 607
- Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary1.3 mi · 683
- C I Johnson Elementary School1.5 mi · 269
- Francis Granger Middle School1.5 mi · 1,011
- Henry W Cowherd Middle School1.6 mi · 807
Frequently asked questions
About Mabel O Donnell Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mabel O Donnell Elementary School?
Mabel O Donnell Elementary School enrolls approximately 360 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mabel O Donnell Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mabel O Donnell Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mabel O Donnell Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mabel O Donnell Elementary School is approximately 13.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mabel O Donnell Elementary School?
At Mabel O Donnell Elementary School, the student body is approximately 5% White, 73% Hispanic, 15% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Mabel O Donnell Elementary School in?
Mabel O Donnell Elementary School is part of Aurora East USD 131.
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