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Ronald D O Neal
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Ronald D O Neal
Ronald D O Neal operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Elgin, Illinois, overseen by SD U-46. Current enrollment sits at 445 students spanning grades K through 6.
Across the 51 schools in SD U-46 (34,036 students total), Ronald D O Neal accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Ronald D O Neal reports that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Ronald D O Neal higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ronald D O Neal sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.1%; this one delivers 23.1%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kane County) shows that median household earnings sit near $103,163, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Kane County runs 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), of which Ronald D O Neal is one.
The closest other public school is Larsen Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ronald D O Neal comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 20.4%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Five-year trend. Ronald D O Neal's enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 545 (now 445). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
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