Oak Park Elem School

Oak Park Elem School is an average-sized K-5 school in Aurora, Illinois, operated by Aurora East USD 131. The school serves 353 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Aurora East USD 131 runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 12,187 students. Oak Park Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Oak Park Elem School shows that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Kane County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Oak Park Elem School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.6%; actual is 16.5%, a gap of -16.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kane County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,163, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Kane County runs 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), of which Oak Park Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Henry W Cowherd Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Park Elem School. On composite proficiency, Oak Park Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

Oak Park Elem School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Park Elem School has edged down 38%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 353 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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