Sunnydale Elementary School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 40 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 38% smaller than its 6th grade class (40).
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 21 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.2% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.5% | 19.1% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
Schools most like Sunnydale Elementary School
Sunnydale Elementary School's state test result (38.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnydale Elementary School this school | 263 | 64.3% | 38.9% |
| Dan H Pietrini Elementary School Franklin Park | 242 | 67.8% | 45.2% |
| J B Kennedy Elementary School Burbank | 295 | 66.4% | 41.6% |
| Orchard Place Elementary School Des Plaines | 258 | 66.3% | 32.1% |
| Emerson Elementary School Berwyn | 260 | 65.4% | 34.5% |
| Richard Byrd Elementary School Burbank | 266 | 61.3% | 36.5% |
Where Sunnydale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #951 of 1,925 | #261 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,026 of 2,077 ▲ 195 | #300 of 829 ▲ 73 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #1,100 of 2,077 ▲ 211 | #361 of 829 ▲ 97 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 263 | #1,752 of 2,419 | #720 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #166 of 2,035 | #101 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.8% | #1,278 of 2,042 | #471 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.3% | #889 of 2,132 | #511 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.9% | #112 of 1,461 | #73 of 661 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 263 | 25.5 | 10.3:1 | 64% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 280 | 23.6 | 11.9:1 | 53% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 297 | 24 | 12.4:1 | 58% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 349 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 398 | 23.7 | 16.8:1 | 71% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 404 | 22 | 18.4:1 | 68% (275) |
| 2010-11 | 410 | 22 | 18.6:1 | 68% (278) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 29 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 465 | 22 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (398 to 263); teachers up 8% (23.7 to 25.5).
About Sunnydale Elementary School
Sunnydale Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school based in Streamwood, Illinois. The school serves pre-K through 6. Enrollment is 263 students. It has 31% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
The SD U-46 system has 51 schools and 34,036 students.
At Sunnydale Elementary School, 80% of students are Hispanic. The school is also 11% White, 4% Asian, and 3% Black. That is higher than the 27% Hispanic share among all Cook County residents. The diversity index for Sunnydale Elementary School is 35%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Sunnydale Elementary School has 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.3:1. Elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1, 3.6 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 64% at Sunnydale Elementary School. The average for public schools in Cook County is similar, at 66%.
In Illinois, Sunnydale Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 38.9% actual against a predicted 34.4%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that the median household earns about $83,498 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Sunnydale Elementary School.
About 0.5 miles separate Sunnydale Elementary School from the closest public school, Tefft Middle School. The five-mile area around Sunnydale Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Sunnydale Elementary School at 1st of 8.
Sunnydale Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Sunnydale Elementary School had a net loss of 86 students, or 25%.
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