Olney C Allen Elem School

Olney C Allen Elem School is a well-populated elementary campus in Aurora, Illinois, one of the schools within Aurora East USD 131. The school educates 712 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 87% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Across the 18 schools in Aurora East USD 131 (12,187 students total), Olney C Allen Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Olney C Allen Elem School reports that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 22% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, Olney C Allen Elem School lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Olney C Allen Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Olney C Allen Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.6%; Olney C Allen Elem School posts 16.5%, -20.1 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kane County indicate median household income runs about $103,163, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Olney C Allen Elem School is one campus in the mix.

East High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olney C Allen Elem School. On composite proficiency, Olney C Allen Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

Olney C Allen Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 738 students in 2018 compared to 712 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 70% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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