Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School

Set in Mazon, Illinois, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School is an intimate elementary school, run under Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C. It caters to 172 students across grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School sits 55% below that benchmark.

Within Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C, which oversees 2 schools and 316 students, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Grundy County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Grundy County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,235 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School is one of 28 public schools in Grundy County (combined enrollment of about 12,070 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 177 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 95% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.