North Barrington Elem School

North Barrington Elem School is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in North Barrington, Illinois, part of Barrington CUSD 220, teacheing 432 students in grades K through 5.

Within Barrington CUSD 220, which oversees 12 schools and 7,936 students, North Barrington Elem School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, North Barrington Elem School logs that White students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lake County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, North Barrington Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.4%; this one delivers 76.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lake County put median household income runs about $110,416, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which North Barrington Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Seth Paine Elem School, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Barrington Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Barrington Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Barrington Elem School has shrank 5%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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