Rose E Krug Elem School

Rose E Krug Elem School operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Aurora, Illinois, overseen by Aurora East USD 131. Current enrollment sits at 271 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Aurora East USD 131 runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 12,187 students. Rose E Krug Elem School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rose E Krug Elem School logs that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 14% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Rose E Krug Elem School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Kane County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rose E Krug Elem School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.0%; this one comes in at 18.0%, -15.0 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kane County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, 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 Rose E Krug Elem School is one.

G N Dieterich Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rose E Krug Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rose E Krug Elem School has decreased 9%, going from 297 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 20% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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