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Enrollment
495
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE ZURICH CUSD 95·NCES 172190002464
Seth Paine Elementary School
50 Miller Rd, Hawthorn Woods, IL 60047 · (847) 438-2163 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL495 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
14.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
145 students
DISTRICT 21% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
82.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +17.6pp since 2023
Math
70.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +18.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.4% | 70.7% |
| 2023-24 | 64.8% | 52.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
74.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% 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 20 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Seth Paine Elementary School
Seth Paine Elementary School's state test result (74.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seth Paine Elementary School this school | 495 | 29.3% | 74.4% |
| Spring Hills Elementary School Roselle | 477 | 30.4% | 67.0% |
| Kenneth E Neubert Elementary School Algonquin | 445 | 30.3% | 61.3% |
| Sarah Adams Elementary School Lake Zurich | 429 | 26.8% | 72.8% |
| Woods Creek Elementary School Crystal Lake | 489 | 22.7% | 54.6% |
| Chatham Elementary School Chatham | 500 | 31.4% | 65.4% |
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 Seth Paine Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #74 of 1,925 | #3 of 69 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #209 of 2,077 ▲ 51 | #26 of 102 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.4% | #96 of 2,077 ▲ 83 | #11 of 102 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 495 | #575 of 2,419 | #31 of 121 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,332 of 2,035 | #90 of 114 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.0% | #1,037 of 2,042 | #70 of 114 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.3% | #1,800 of 2,132 | #68 of 82 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +26.3% | #81 of 615 | #6 of 37 |
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
495
+117 (+31%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 597
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 | 495 | 34.6 | 14.3:1 | 29% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 489 | 33.4 | 14.7:1 | 29% (142) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 32.6 | 14.2:1 | 24% (112) |
| 2020-21 | 378 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 392 | 29.7 | 13.2:1 | 20% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 387 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 16% (62) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 13% (56) |
| 2000-01 | 540 | 31 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 597 | 22 | 27.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Seth Paine Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 26% (392 to 495); teachers up 17% (29.7 to 34.6).
About Seth Paine Elementary School
Seth Paine Elementary School serves students in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, as a mid-sized elementary school. Total enrollment is 495 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5. It has 30% more students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
Lake Zurich CUSD 95 counts 8 schools and 5,772 students, including Seth Paine Elementary School.
About 72% of the student body at Seth Paine Elementary School is White. Other groups make up 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 61% of Lake County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 45%.
Seth Paine Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1, with 34.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Illinois is similar, at 13.9:1. The school has 29% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Lake County is 54%.
Seth Paine Elementary School earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 96% of Illinois public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Seth Paine Elementary School is +19.8 points, in the top 10% of Illinois. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 74.4%, and the predicted rate is 54.6%.
The school's county is Lake County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $110,416 a year, roughly 48% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Seth Paine Elementary School shares Lake County with 213 other public schools.
A public school about 1.0 miles away, Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus, is the closest to Seth Paine Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 75.0% proficiency; Seth Paine Elementary School posts 74.4%.
NCES describes the area around Seth Paine Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 31% gain took enrollment from 378 in 2020-21 to 495 in 2024-25.
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Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
714,223
Census ACS
Median income
$110,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
118,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lake Zurich CUSD 95
- Lake Zurich High SchoolHigh · 1,839 students
- Lake Zurich Middle - N CampusMiddle · 697 students
- May Whitney Elementary SchoolElementary · 677 students
- Lake Zurich Middle - S CampusMiddle · 599 students
- Isaac Fox Elementary SchoolElementary · 520 students
- Spencer Loomis Elementary SchoolElementary · 516 students
Other schools in Hawthorn Woods
- Lake Zurich Middle - N CampusMiddle · 697 students
- Spencer Loomis Elementary SchoolElementary · 516 students
Nearby schools
- Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus1.0 mi · 697
- Spencer Loomis Elementary School1.0 mi · 516
- Lake Zurich High School1.1 mi · 1,839
- May Whitney Elementary School1.2 mi · 677
- North Barrington Elementary School1.8 mi · 432
- Sarah Adams Elementary School2.2 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About Seth Paine Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Seth Paine Elementary School?
Seth Paine Elementary School enrolls approximately 495 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Seth Paine Elementary School serve?
Seth Paine Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Seth Paine Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Seth Paine Elementary School is approximately 14.3:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Seth Paine Elementary School?
Student demographics at Seth Paine Elementary School are roughly 72% White, 15% Hispanic, 1% Black, 8% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Seth Paine Elementary School public or private?
Seth Paine Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Zurich CUSD 95.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.