Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD SD 205·NCES 173451003605
Thurgood Marshall Elementary
4704 N Rockton Ave, Rockford, IL 61103 · (815) 966-3370 · Winnebago County
GRADES 01–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Illinois public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
132 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 84 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 26% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 28% |
This year's 1st grade class (84) is 20% smaller than its 4th grade class (105).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Thurgood Marshall Elementary→Thurgood Marshall School
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
98.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
98.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 99 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 98.0% | 98.5% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 97.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
97.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+46.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 98% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 47 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Thurgood Marshall Elementary
Thurgood Marshall Elementary's state test result (97.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurgood Marshall Elementary this school | 374 | 35.3% | 97.8% |
| Liberty Elementary School Bartlett | 401 | 32.9% | 50.6% |
| Spring Trail Elementary School Carol Stream | 486 | 39.7% | 61.5% |
| Iroquois Community School Des Plaines | 411 | 28.2% | 68.2% |
| Colene Hoose Elementary School Normal | 413 | 34.1% | 41.4% |
| Cloverdale Elementary School Carol Stream | 466 | 41.8% | 51.8% |
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 Thurgood Marshall Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Winnebago County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 97.8% | #1 of 1,925 | #1 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 98.5% | #1 of 2,077 no change | #1 of 44 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 98.0% | #1 of 2,077 ▲ 2 | #1 of 44 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #1,132 of 2,419 | #32 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #1,908 of 2,035 | #34 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #153 of 2,042 | #13 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.3% | #1,666 of 2,132 | #44 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #1,102 of 1,461 | #20 of 28 |
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
374
-26 (-6%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 372
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 | 374 | 21 | 17.8:1 | 35% (132) |
| 2023-24 | 378 | 20.9 | 18.1:1 | 34% (127) |
| 2022-23 | 365 | 20.9 | 17.5:1 | 24% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 400 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 401 | 21.2 | 18.9:1 | 18% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 22 | 22.9:1 | 17% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 781 | 37 | 21.1:1 | 30% (237) |
| 2000-01 | 396 | 19 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 372 | 24 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thurgood Marshall Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (401 to 374); teachers down 1% (21.2 to 21).
About Thurgood Marshall Elementary
Federal records list Thurgood Marshall Elementary as an elementary school in Rockford, Illinois. It teaches 374 students in grades 1 through 4.
Rockford SD 205 is the district for Thurgood Marshall Elementary. It has 44 schools and 28,467 students.
White students make up 45% of enrollment at Thurgood Marshall Elementary, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 21% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Winnebago County's population at about 66%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 70%.
On staff are 21 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. About 35% of students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Winnebago County is 61%.
Thurgood Marshall Elementary holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of Illinois public elementary schools.
After accounting for student poverty, Thurgood Marshall Elementary is in the top 10% of Illinois schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 97.8% is 46.7 points above the 51.1% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Winnebago County show that the median household earns about $65,837 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Across Winnebago County, 94 public schools serve about 44,103 students.
Thurgood Marshall School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Thurgood Marshall Elementary at 1st of 8.
The federal government classifies Thurgood Marshall Elementary's location as Rural: Fringe.
The school's enrollment decreased 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Winnebago County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
283,292
Census ACS
Median income
$65,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
44,103 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockford SD 205
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other schools in Rockford
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other Thurgood Marshall Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 10 states are named Thurgood Marshall Elementary. Thurgood Marshall Elementary is the 12th largest of the 14.
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary SchoolBellwood, IL · 229 students
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary SchoolMorrow, GA · 801 students
- Thurgood Marshall ElementaryOxnard, CA · 702 students
- Thurgood Marshall ElementaryManassas, VA · 642 students
- Thurgood Marshall ElementaryGaithersburg, MD · 553 students
Nearby schools
- Thurgood Marshall School0.2 mi · 514
- Conklin Elementary School1.2 mi · 372
- West View Elementary School1.4 mi · 521
- Summerdale Early Childhood Center1.9 mi · 460
- Loves Park Elementary School2.2 mi · 279
- R K Welsh Elementary School2.3 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Thurgood Marshall ElementaryHow large is Thurgood Marshall Elementary?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary enrolls approximately 374 students in grades 01-04.
What grades does Thurgood Marshall Elementary serve?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary serves grades 01-04.
How many teachers does Thurgood Marshall Elementary have?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary?
At Thurgood Marshall Elementary, the student body is approximately 45% White, 21% Hispanic, 6% Black, 21% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Thurgood Marshall Elementary in?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary is part of Rockford SD 205.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.