Prairie Children Preschool

Prairie Children Preschool is a large elementary school in Aurora, Illinois, (ZIP code 60504). The school runs pre-K and enrolls 643 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.

Prairie Children Preschool falls under Indian Prairie CUSD 204, which has 32 schools enrolling 26,108 students.

The student body at Prairie Children Preschool has no majority group. Asian students lead at 45%. Next come 23% White, 16% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 13% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.

The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.9:1. Compared with the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois, this school's ratio is higher.

For the population of DuPage County, median household income comes to about $112,096, roughly 52% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DuPage County's 277 public schools enroll about 138,557 students and include Prairie Children Preschool.

A public school about 0.2 miles away, Still Middle School, is the closest to Prairie Children Preschool. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 389 to 643. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served.

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