The Wheatlands Elementary School

The Wheatlands Elementary School is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in Aurora, Illinois, run under CUSD 308, with 613 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 61% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

The Wheatlands Elementary School is one of 21 schools operated by CUSD 308, a district that instructs 16,766 students overall.

Looking at the student body, The Wheatlands Elementary School logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 27% Asian, 12% Black, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, The Wheatlands Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Will County (around 44%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, The Wheatlands Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Will County shows median household earnings sit near $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Will County runs 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), of which The Wheatlands Elementary School is one.

Homestead Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Wheatlands Elementary School. On composite proficiency, The Wheatlands Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 608 students in 2018 compared to 613 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 12% to 27%.

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