Enrollment
345
Elementary
DISTRICT 519 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·INDIAN PRAIRIE CUSD 204·NCES 174169003610
Wayne Builta Elementary School
1835 Apple Valley Rd, Bolingbrook, IL 60490 · (630) 226-4400 · Will County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL345 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% 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.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
13.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
45 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
80.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +19.3pp since 2023
Math
80.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.2% | 80.8% |
| 2023-24 | 60.9% | 72.2% |
% 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
76.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Wayne Builta Elementary School
Wayne Builta Elementary School's state test result (76.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Builta Elementary School this school | 345 | 13.0% | 76.9% |
| Nancy Young Elementary School Aurora | 574 | 14.3% | 63.0% |
| Oliver Julian Kendall Elementary School Naperville | 572 | 7.2% | 79.6% |
| Danielle-Joy Peterson Elementary School Naperville | 570 | 3.3% | 70.7% |
| Skinner North Elementary School Chicago | 515 | 12.0% | 95.2% |
| Owen Elementary School Naperville | 577 | 17.5% | 61.9% |
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 Wayne Builta Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #48 of 1,925 | #6 of 94 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.8% | #69 of 2,077 ▼ 30 | #6 of 100 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #133 of 2,077 ▲ 107 | #7 of 100 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 345 | #1,289 of 2,419 | #86 of 116 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,005 of 2,035 | #47 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.7% | #664 of 2,042 | #57 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.0% | #2,060 of 2,132 | #94 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.9% | #580 of 615 | #32 of 36 |
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
345
+50 (+17%) vs 2020
-23% since 2000-01, when it was 449
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 | 345 | 25.9 | 13.3:1 | 13% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 24.3 | 12.8:1 | 17% (52) |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 24.3 | 11.4:1 | 18% (50) |
| 2020-21 | 295 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 342 | 26.2 | 13.1:1 | 16% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 380 | 26 | 14.6:1 | 9% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 489 | 28 | 17.5:1 | 8% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 449 | 30 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wayne Builta Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (342 to 345); teachers down 1% (26.2 to 25.9).
About Wayne Builta Elementary School
Wayne Builta Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Bolingbrook, Illinois. It reported 345 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Besides Wayne Builta Elementary School, Indian Prairie CUSD 204 runs 31 other schools. The district enrolls 26,108 students.
More than half of enrollment at Wayne Builta Elementary School is Asian: 62%. The remaining shares are 17% White, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Will County as a whole is about 6% Asian, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wayne Builta Elementary School scores 58%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wayne Builta Elementary School is 13.3:1, based on 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Lunch program data show 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Will County is 44%.
Wayne Builta Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Wayne Builta Elementary School's results are 12.9 points above predicted: 76.9% against 64.0%.
Looking at the county, Will County, the median household earns about $109,984 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Will County has 209 public schools with about 113,008 students, including Wayne Builta Elementary School.
Pioneer Elementary School is the nearest public school to Wayne Builta Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 76.9% is above the 64.6% average for nearby schools.
The school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Small).
The school grew from 295 students in 2020-21 to 345 in 2024-25.
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Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Indian Prairie CUSD 204
- Neuqua Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,018 students
- Waubonsie Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,849 students
- Metea Valley High SchoolHigh · 2,766 students
- Francis Granger Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Scullen Middle SchoolMiddle · 948 students
- Clifford Crone Middle SchoolMiddle · 891 students
Other schools in Bolingbrook
- Bolingbrook High SchoolHigh · 3,298 students
- Brooks Middle SchoolMiddle · 850 students
- Oak View Elementary SchoolElementary · 636 students
- Independence Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Hubert H Humphrey Middle SchoolMiddle · 596 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolElementary · 561 students
Nearby schools
- Pioneer Elementary School0.9 mi · 561
- Patterson Elementary School1.6 mi · 453
- Spring Brook Elementary School1.7 mi · 569
- Plainfield East High School2.0 mi · 1,825
- Jamie McGee Elementary School2.1 mi · 487
- Gordon Gregory Middle School2.1 mi · 811
Frequently asked questions
About Wayne Builta Elementary SchoolHow large is Wayne Builta Elementary School?
Wayne Builta Elementary School enrolls approximately 345 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Wayne Builta Elementary School serve?
Wayne Builta Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wayne Builta Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wayne Builta Elementary School is approximately 13.3:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wayne Builta Elementary School?
At Wayne Builta Elementary School, the student body is approximately 17% White, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, 62% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Wayne Builta Elementary School public or private?
Wayne Builta Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Indian Prairie CUSD 204.
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