Norton Creek Elementary School

As a medium-sized K-5 school in West Chicago, Illinois, Norton Creek Elementary School instructs 479 students from grades K through 5, run under St Charles CUSD 303. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Norton Creek Elementary School sits 26% above that benchmark.

St Charles CUSD 303 runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 11,952 students. Norton Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Norton Creek Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 20% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 10% of students at Norton Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Norton Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.2%.

In the broader community, DuPage County reports that median household earnings sit near $112,096, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), Norton Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Wayne Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Norton Creek Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Norton Creek Elementary School's enrollment has increased 43% since 2018, when it stood at 336 (now 479). White enrollment moved from 61% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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