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Best kept secret at Parkview Elementary School?
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Enrollment
552
Elementary
DISTRICT 522 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUSD 300·NCES 170855000493
Parkview Elementary School
122 Carpenter Blvd, Carpentersville, IL 60110 · (224) 484-2500 · Kane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL552 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
442 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 11 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 45% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
34.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +17.8pp since 2023
Math
22.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.5% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 16.7% | 16.7% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Parkview Elementary School
Parkview Elementary School's state test result (26.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkview Elementary School this school | 552 | 80.1% | 26.2% |
| Whitehead Elementary School Rockford | 678 | 80.7% | 22.0% |
| Indian Hill Elementary School Round Lake Heights | 529 | 84.5% | 16.9% |
| De Diego Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 511 | 80.0% | 14.1% |
| Washington Elementary School Rockford | 523 | 83.0% | 13.2% |
| Century Oaks Elementary School Elgin | 542 | 74.0% | 24.5% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Parkview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #1,407 of 1,925 | #45 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #1,530 of 2,077 ▼ 198 | #60 of 83 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,537 of 2,077 ▲ 143 | #54 of 83 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 552 | #371 of 2,419 | #16 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,296 of 2,035 | #39 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #771 of 2,042 | #23 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #505 of 2,132 | #9 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.7% | #121 of 615 | #11 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
552
+183 (+50%) vs 2020
+61% since 1990-91, when it was 342
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 552 | 39 | 14.2:1 | 80% (442) |
| 2023-24 | 567 | 35 | 16.2:1 | 75% (424) |
| 2022-23 | 424 | 26.8 | 15.8:1 | 72% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 369 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 461 | 35.6 | 13.0:1 | 59% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 72% (375) |
| 2010-11 | 521 | 25 | 20.8:1 | 87% (452) |
| 2000-01 | 348 | 22 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 342 | 16 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 20% (461 to 552); teachers up 10% (35.6 to 39).
About Parkview Elementary School
Located in Carpentersville, Illinois, Parkview Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. The school teaches kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 552 students. The school is 45% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Besides Parkview Elementary School, CUSD 300 runs 26 other schools. The district enrolls 20,705 students.
The student body at Parkview Elementary School is 64% Hispanic. It is also 19% White, 10% Black, and 5% multiracial. Kane County's residents are about 33% Hispanic, 30 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 55, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 14.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Parkview Elementary School, which has 39. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 80%. That rate is above the 48% average among public schools in Kane County.
On the allk12 Grade, Parkview Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 30% of Illinois public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Parkview Elementary School is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
The school's county is Kane County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $103,163 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Parkview Elementary School shares Kane County with 166 other public schools.
Delacey Family Educ Center sits about 0.1 miles from Parkview Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Parkview Elementary School places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Parkview Elementary School reported 369 students in 2020-21 and 552 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades.
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Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CUSD 300
- Dundee-Crown High SchoolHigh · 2,573 students
- Harry D Jacobs High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Hampshire High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Westfield Community SchoolElementary · 1,287 students
- Dundee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,144 students
- Carpentersville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,142 students
Other schools in Carpentersville
- Dundee-Crown High SchoolHigh · 2,573 students
- Carpentersville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,142 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolElementary · 749 students
- Lakewood SchoolElementary · 590 students
- Meadowdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 421 students
- Golfview Elementary SchoolElementary · 401 students
Other Parkview Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 19 states are named Parkview Elementary. Parkview Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 41.
- Parkview Elementary SchoolColumbia, IL · 427 students
- Parkview ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 920 students
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARYROSEMOUNT, MN · 674 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 618 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 609 students
Nearby schools
- Delacey Family Educ Center0.1 mi · 210
- Carpentersville Middle School0.3 mi · 1,142
- Dundee Highlands Elementary School1.0 mi · 396
- Lakewood School1.2 mi · 590
- Meadowdale Elementary School1.6 mi · 421
- Golfview Elementary School1.7 mi · 401
Frequently asked questions
About Parkview Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Parkview Elementary School?
Parkview Elementary School enrolls approximately 552 students in grades KG-05.
Is Parkview Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Parkview Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Parkview Elementary School?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Parkview Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Parkview Elementary School?
Student demographics at Parkview Elementary School are roughly 19% White, 64% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Parkview Elementary School in?
Parkview Elementary School is part of CUSD 300.
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