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Scott Elementary School
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Scott Elementary School
Scott Elementary School is a mid-tier K-5 school in Naperville, Illinois, operated by Naperville CUSD 203. The school works with 435 students in grades K through 5.
Scott Elementary School is one of 22 schools operated by Naperville CUSD 203, a district that serves 16,047 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Scott Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Black, 10% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with DuPage County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Scott Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against DuPage County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Scott 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 57.7%; Scott Elementary School posts 72.6%, +14.9 points above that line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (DuPage County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Scott Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Madison Jr High School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Scott Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 75.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 425 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.
On this page, members of the Scott Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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