Meadowdale Elem School

Meadowdale Elem School is a mid-tier elementary school in Carpentersville, Illinois, one of the schools within CUSD 300. The school enrolls 421 students in grades K through 5.

CUSD 300 comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 20,705 students; Meadowdale Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Meadowdale Elem School shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 89% of students at Meadowdale 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadowdale Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kane County put median household income runs about $103,163, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Meadowdale Elem School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).

Sunny Hill Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadowdale Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.4%.

Meadowdale Elem School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 411 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 90% to 98%.

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