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Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COMM CONS SD 59·NCES 171377001726
Salt Creek Elementary School
65 JF Kennedy Blvd, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 · (847) 593-4375 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
260 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
41.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.5pp since 2023
Math
37.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.5% | 37.4% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 26.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Salt Creek Elementary School
Salt Creek Elementary School's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Creek Elementary School this school | 410 | 63.4% | 38.7% |
| Luther Burbank Elementary School Burbank | 453 | 65.8% | 37.5% |
| Edward J Tobin Elementary School Burbank | 346 | 63.6% | 42.4% |
| Willow Springs Elementary School Willow Springs | 414 | 65.7% | 42.8% |
| Schafer Elementary School Lombard | 354 | 62.4% | 26.8% |
| Chaney-Monge School Crest Hill | 479 | 68.5% | 24.9% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Salt Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #960 of 1,925 | #263 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #1,044 of 2,077 ▼ 96 | #306 of 829 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #1,300 of 2,077 ▼ 76 | #438 of 829 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #958 of 2,419 | #413 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #511 of 2,035 | #267 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.0% | #826 of 2,042 | #295 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.4% | #907 of 2,132 | #514 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #1,223 of 1,461 | #572 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
410
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 386
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 410 | 34.5 | 11.9:1 | 63% (260) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 32.6 | 13.0:1 | 65% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 404 | 32.3 | 12.5:1 | 65% (264) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 429 | 27.3 | 15.7:1 | 62% (268) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 29 | 15.0:1 | 61% (265) |
| 2010-11 | 430 | 30 | 14.3:1 | 50% (216) |
| 2000-01 | 540 | 31 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 386 | 26 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salt Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (429 to 410); teachers up 27% (27.3 to 34.5).
About Salt Creek Elementary School
Salt Creek Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 410 students.
The Comm Cons SD 59 system has 15 schools and 5,869 students.
Salt Creek Elementary School's enrollment is 59% Hispanic. The remaining shares are 35% White and 2% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Cook County's population at about 27%. Salt Creek Elementary School has a diversity index of 53%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
A ratio of 11.9:1 comes from the school's 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 63% of students at Salt Creek Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades Salt Creek Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Salt Creek Elementary School, the prediction is 34.9% and the result is 38.7%.
Salt Creek Elementary School is located in Cook County, where median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 1,406 public schools in Cook County, with a combined enrollment of about 697,934.
The closest public school, Grove Jr High School, is about 0.5 miles from Salt Creek Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Salt Creek Elementary School ranks 3rd in a group of 6 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Salt Creek Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Salt Creek Elementary School saw enrollment fall 3% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The Salt Creek Elementary School community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Comm Cons SD 59
- Grove Jr High SchoolMiddle · 741 students
- Friendship Jr High SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- Holmes Jr High SchoolMiddle · 459 students
- Clearmont Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- John Jay Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
- Brentwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 375 students
Other schools in Elk Grove Village
- Elk Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,906 students
- Grove Jr High SchoolMiddle · 741 students
- Margaret Mead Junior High SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Adolph Link Elementary SchoolElementary · 652 students
- Adlai Stevenson Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Clearmont Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
Other Salt Creek Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Salt Creek Elementary. Salt Creek Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Salt Creek Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 149 students
- Salt Creek ElementaryChula Vista, CA · 835 students
Nearby schools
- Grove Jr High School0.5 mi · 741
- Elk Grove High School0.5 mi · 1,906
- Clearmont Elementary School0.6 mi · 408
- Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School0.7 mi · 301
- Ridge Family Center for Learning0.7 mi · 261
- Rupley Elementary School1.5 mi · 280
Frequently asked questions
About Salt Creek Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Salt Creek Elementary School?
Salt Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 410 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Salt Creek Elementary School serve?
Salt Creek Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Salt Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at Salt Creek Elementary School.
How diverse is Salt Creek Elementary School?
Salt Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 35% White, 59% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Salt Creek Elementary School?
Salt Creek Elementary School is overseen by Comm Cons SD 59 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.