Sleepy Hollow Elem School

Sleepy Hollow Elem School is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Sleepy Hollow, Illinois, operated by CUSD 300, with 424 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 27 schools in CUSD 300 (20,705 students total), Sleepy Hollow Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Sleepy Hollow Elem School logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 33% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 44% of students at Sleepy Hollow Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sleepy Hollow Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.2%; this one delivers 59.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kane County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Sleepy Hollow Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Dundee Highlands Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sleepy Hollow Elem School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sleepy Hollow Elem School has expanded 20%, going from 353 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 47% across the same window.

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