Turner Elem School

Turner Elem School operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in West Chicago, Illinois, overseen by West Chicago ESD 33. Current enrollment sits at 349 students spanning grades K through 5.

West Chicago ESD 33 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,233 students. Turner Elem School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Turner Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder consists of 11% White, 2% Black. By comparison, DuPage County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Turner Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Turner Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.8%; this one delivers 32.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (DuPage County) logs that median household income runs about $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Turner Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Wegner Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Turner Elem School. On composite proficiency, Turner Elem School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Turner Elem School has contracted 10%, going from 389 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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