Mabel O Donnell Elem School

Set in Aurora, Illinois, Mabel O Donnell Elem School is a moderately sized K-5 school, part of Aurora East USD 131. It hosts 360 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Mabel O Donnell Elem School is one of 18 schools operated by Aurora East USD 131, a district that serves 12,187 students overall.

On demographics, Mabel O Donnell Elem School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 15% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mabel O Donnell Elem School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at Mabel O Donnell Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mabel O Donnell Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.8%; Mabel O Donnell Elem School posts 16.8%, -18.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kane County) logs 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%. Mabel O Donnell Elem School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).

C F Simmons Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mabel O Donnell Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mabel O Donnell Elem School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 360 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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