North Elementary School

North Elementary School operates as a small elementary school in Sycamore, Illinois, overseen by Sycamore CUSD 427. Current enrollment sits at 309 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Sycamore CUSD 427, which oversees 7 schools and 3,720 students, North Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, North Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 80%. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, DeKalb County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put the typical household earns roughly $70,724 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across DeKalb County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,328 students), North Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sycamore Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, North Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Elementary School has grew 10%, going from 280 students in 2018 to 309 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 90% to 80%.

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