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How has Nicholas A Hermes Elem School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
607
Elementary
DISTRICT 427 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AURORA EAST USD 131·NCES 170468000152
Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School
1000 Jungles Ave, Aurora, IL 60505 · (630) 299-8200 · Kane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL607 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% 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.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
19.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
385 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 73 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
19%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
21.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
12.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.3% | 12.6% |
| 2023-24 | 11.3% | 3.9% |
% 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
15.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% 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 Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School
Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School's state test result (15.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School this school | 607 | 63.4% | 15.5% |
| G N Dieterich Elementary School Aurora | 507 | 63.3% | 11.9% |
| McAuliffe Elementary School Chicago | 523 | 66.3% | 18.2% |
| C M Bardwell Elementary School Aurora | 679 | 67.2% | 12.6% |
| Reilly Elementary School Chicago | 539 | 67.7% | 22.2% |
| Roy Elementary School Northlake | 545 | 59.4% | 35.1% |
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 Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.5% | #1,738 of 1,925 | #66 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.6% | #1,808 of 2,077 ▲ 106 | #76 of 83 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #1,895 of 2,077 ▼ 3 | #71 of 83 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 607 | #264 of 2,419 | #12 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #1,987 of 2,035 | #85 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.2% | #1,648 of 2,042 | #79 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.4% | #906 of 2,132 | #25 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #987 of 1,461 | #36 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
607
-33 (-5%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 560
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 | 607 | 30.5 | 19.9:1 | 63% (385) |
| 2023-24 | 625 | 31.7 | 19.8:1 | 69% (431) |
| 2022-23 | 616 | 31 | 19.9:1 | 69% (426) |
| 2020-21 | 640 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 665 | 41.6 | 16.0:1 | 72% (481) |
| 2015-16 | 719 | 41 | 17.5:1 | 66% (476) |
| 2010-11 | 877 | 39 | 22.5:1 | 76% (670) |
| 2000-01 | 690 | 31 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 560 | 24 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (665 to 607); teachers down 27% (41.6 to 30.5).
About Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School
Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School is a large elementary school in Aurora, Illinois, (ZIP code 60505). It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 607 students. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 59% higher.
In Aurora East USD 131, 18 schools enroll a combined 12,187 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School is 90%. The remaining shares are 7% Black. Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School scores 19%.
On staff are 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.9:1. Elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1, 6.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 63%. Public schools in Kane County average 48%.
Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 2% of Illinois public elementary schools.
In Illinois, Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 15.5% compared with a predicted 34.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for Kane County show that median household income comes to about $103,163, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 167, with about 87,252 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, C F Simmons Middle School, is the closest to Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School is 5th of 8 on proficiency.
Federal data place Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 5% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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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 School0.4 mi · 792
- Benavides Steam Academy0.8 mi · 326
- Oak Park Elementary School1.0 mi · 353
- Mabel O Donnell Elementary School1.2 mi · 360
- Henry W Cowherd Middle School1.2 mi · 807
- L D Brady Elementary School1.3 mi · 310
Frequently asked questions
About Nicholas A Hermes Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School?
Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School enrolls approximately 607 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School serve?
Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School is approximately 19.9:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School?
Student demographics at Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 90% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School in?
Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School is part of Aurora East USD 131.
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