Sunny Hill Elem School

Sunny Hill Elem School is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in Carpentersville, Illinois, part of Barrington CUSD 220, instructing 245 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Across the 12 schools in Barrington CUSD 220 (7,936 students total), Sunny Hill Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sunny Hill Elem School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). The remainder breaks down as 11% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kane County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sunny Hill Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 30.9%, a residual of +10.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kane County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,163, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kane County runs 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), of which Sunny Hill Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Meadowdale Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunny Hill Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunny Hill Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 27.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sunny Hill Elem School's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 245).

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