Sunnydale Elem School

Set in Streamwood, Illinois, Sunnydale Elem School is an intimate primary school, overseen by SD U-46. It works with 263 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

SD U-46 comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 34,036 students; Sunnydale Elem School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sunnydale Elem School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 80%. The remainder looks like 11% White, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Sunnydale Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sunnydale Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.4%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of +4.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Sunnydale Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tefft Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunnydale Elem School. On composite proficiency, Sunnydale Elem School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Sunnydale Elem School's enrollment has ticked down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 398 (now 263). Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.