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Enrollment
646
Elementary
DISTRICT 563 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAINFIELD SD 202·NCES 173174005968
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
1900 Oxford Way, Joliet, IL 60431 · (815) 577-2021 · Kendall County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL646 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
246 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
51.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +21.1pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +21.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 21 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.6% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.5% | 17.6% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School this school | 646 | 38.1% | 41.5% |
| Charles Reed Elementary School Plainfield | 641 | 36.7% | 38.0% |
| Fox Chase Elementary School Oswego | 661 | 37.7% | 52.2% |
| Gray M Sanborn Elementary School Palatine | 661 | 38.6% | 35.4% |
| Pleasant Hill Elementary School Winfield | 583 | 40.0% | 56.7% |
| Meadow View Elementary School Plainfield | 627 | 42.6% | 42.3% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Thomas Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kendall County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #865 of 1,925 | #17 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #993 of 2,077 ▲ 292 | #17 of 22 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #951 of 2,077 ▲ 207 | #13 of 22 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 646 | #189 of 2,419 | #7 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #886 of 2,035 | #5 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #95 of 2,042 | #2 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.1% | #1,596 of 2,132 | #5 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.7% | #518 of 615 | #10 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
646
+85 (+15%) vs 2020
+5% since 2010-11, when it was 614
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 646 | 49.7 | 13.0:1 | 38% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 613 | 44.3 | 13.8:1 | 37% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 41.5 | 13.9:1 | 41% (238) |
| 2020-21 | 561 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 629 | 44.1 | 14.3:1 | 29% (185) |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 41 | 14.6:1 | 30% (182) |
| 2010-11 | 614 | 34 | 18.1:1 | 20% (120) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (629 to 646); teachers up 13% (44.1 to 49.7).
About Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is a large elementary school for students in Joliet, Illinois. It reported 646 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Plainfield SD 202 has 24,556 students spread across 30 schools.
No group is above 50% at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School; the largest is White, at 39%. It is also 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Kendall County's residents are about 65% White, 26 points above the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 72%.
The school lists 49.7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 38% of the student body.
A school with Thomas Jefferson Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Illinois is predicted to score 49.5%. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School scores 41.5%, 8.1 points below that line.
The school is in Kendall County, where the median household earns about $111,601 a year, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School shares Kendall County with 49 other public schools.
Aux Sable Middle School sits about 0.1 miles from Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School ranks 8th on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 646, up from 561 in 2020-21.
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Kendall County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
137,675
Census ACS
Median income
$111,601
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
29,773 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plainfield SD 202
- Plainfield North High SchoolHigh · 2,399 students
- Plainfield South High SchoolHigh · 2,323 students
- Plainfield East High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,800 students
- John F Kennedy Middle SchoolMiddle · 912 students
- Timber Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
Other schools in Joliet
- Joliet West High SchoolHigh · 3,451 students
- Joliet Central High SchoolHigh · 3,295 students
- Hufford Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,072 students
- Aux Sable Middle SchoolMiddle · 844 students
- Washington Jr High & Academy PrgmMiddle · 724 students
- Dirksen Junior High SchoolMiddle · 653 students
Other Thomas Jefferson Elementary schools
27 other US public schools in 15 states are named Thomas Jefferson Elementary. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 28.
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolHoffman Estates, IL · 394 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolMilan, IL · 277 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolJoliet, IL · 235 students
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryGlendale, CA · 815 students
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryBurbank, CA · 758 students
Nearby schools
- Aux Sable Middle School0.1 mi · 844
- Plainfield South High School0.8 mi · 2,323
- Charles Reed Elementary School1.1 mi · 641
- Jones Elementary School1.7 mi · 553
- Meadow View Elementary School1.9 mi · 627
- Ridge Elementary School2.8 mi · 481
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 646 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Thomas Jefferson Elementary School serve?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School are roughly 39% White, 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is part of Plainfield SD 202.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.