Sarah Adams Elementary School

Located at 555 Old Mill Grove Rd, in Lake Zurich, Illinois, Sarah Adams Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that educates 429 students (grades K through 5), run under Lake Zurich CUSD 95.

Within Lake Zurich CUSD 95, which oversees 8 schools and 5,772 students, Sarah Adams Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Sarah Adams Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 10% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the income-and-resources front, Sarah Adams Elementary School lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Sarah Adams Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Lake County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Sarah Adams Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 56.0%; Sarah Adams Elementary School posts 72.8%, +16.7 points above that line.

Around the school, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which Sarah Adams Elementary School is one.

May Whitney Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sarah Adams Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 17%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 72% across the same window.

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