W S Beaupre Elem School

W S Beaupre Elem School, a compact K-5 school in Aurora, Illinois, operated by Aurora East USD 131, serves 226 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

W S Beaupre Elem School is one of 18 schools operated by Aurora East USD 131, a district that serves 12,187 students overall.

On the student-mix side, W S Beaupre Elem School lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 10% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kane County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), W S Beaupre Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.0%; W S Beaupre Elem School posts 15.3%, -19.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Kane County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kane County runs 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), of which W S Beaupre Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Edna Rollins Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts W S Beaupre Elem School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 21.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 226 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 97% to 88% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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