Spring Grove Elementary School

Spring Grove Elementary School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Spring Grove, Illinois, part of Nippersink SD 2. Current enrollment sits at 327 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Spring Grove Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Nippersink SD 2, a district that teaches 1,111 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Spring Grove Elementary School records that 80% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to McHenry County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, McHenry County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spring Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.0%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +7.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (McHenry County) shows that median household earnings sit near $104,802, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, McHenry County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), of which Spring Grove Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Johnsburg High School, around 2.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Grove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Spring Grove Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Spring Grove Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 306 students in 2018 compared to 327 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 89% to 80%.

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