Prospect Elem School

Set in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, Prospect Elem School is a low-enrollment elementary campus, one of the schools within Hinsdale CCSD 181. It enrolls 302 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

Hinsdale CCSD 181 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,574 students. Prospect Elem School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Prospect Elem School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest breaks down as 15% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Prospect Elem School lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average.

Around the school, census data for DuPage County shows 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%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Prospect Elem School is one.

Clarendon Hills Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Prospect Elem School's enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 397 (now 302). Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 10% to 15%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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