Raymond Ellis Elementary School

Raymond Ellis Elementary School runs as a large elementary school in Round Lake Beach, Illinois. It reports enrollment of 617 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Illinois enroll around 381, and this school is 62% bigger than that mark.

Besides Raymond Ellis Elementary School, Round Lake CUSD 116 runs 8 other schools. The district enrolls 6,473 students.

Raymond Ellis Elementary School is 86% Hispanic by enrollment. The next largest groups are 8% White, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. In Lake County overall, about 25% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Raymond Ellis Elementary School scores 26%.

For every teacher at Raymond Ellis Elementary School, there are about 12.0 students; the school has 51.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 556 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 90% of enrollment. On average, public schools in Lake County report 54%.

Raymond Ellis Elementary School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 18% of Illinois public elementary schools.

Raymond Ellis Elementary School is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (18.6% versus 19.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Illinois.

The county, Lake County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $110,416 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 48%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting Raymond Ellis Elementary School, Lake County has 214 public schools.

Raymond Ellis Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Round Lake Senior High School, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Raymond Ellis Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.

The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.

Enrollment rose by 19% across 4 years, from 517 in 2020-21 to 617 in 2024-25.

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