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Enrollment
535
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST CHARLES CUSD 303·NCES 173717003861
Wild Rose Elementary School
36W730 Red Haw Ln, Saint Charles, IL 60174 · (331) 228-3000 · Kane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL535 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
47 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 35% smaller than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
80.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +15.9pp since 2023
Math
77.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +14.5pp 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 78 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.1% | 77.7% |
| 2023-24 | 64.2% | 63.2% |
% 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
76.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Wild Rose Elementary School
Wild Rose Elementary School's state test result (76.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Rose Elementary School this school | 535 | 8.8% | 76.2% |
| Ferson Creek School Saint Charles | 533 | 8.4% | 79.2% |
| Prairie Elementary School Naperville | 515 | 8.3% | 84.0% |
| Maplebrook Elementary School Naperville | 512 | 9.2% | 78.9% |
| Bell-Graham Elementary School Saint Charles | 520 | 7.7% | 80.1% |
| Thomas Metcalf School Normal | 459 | 7.0% | 71.5% |
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 Wild Rose Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #52 of 1,925 | #3 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.7% | #104 of 2,077 ▲ 17 | #5 of 83 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #138 of 2,077 ▲ 53 | #4 of 83 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 535 | #419 of 2,419 | #18 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,343 of 2,035 | #43 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.5% | #1,243 of 2,042 | #55 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.8% | #2,095 of 2,132 | #75 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #587 of 615 | #31 of 32 |
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
535
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 435
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 | 535 | 37.3 | 14.3:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2023-24 | 578 | 37.1 | 15.6:1 | 14% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 563 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 10% (54) |
| 2020-21 | 527 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 29.5 | 18.0:1 | 7% (39) |
| 2015-16 | 476 | 25 | 19.0:1 | 7% (31) |
| 2010-11 | 536 | 27 | 19.9:1 | 5% (25) |
| 2000-01 | 615 | 25 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 435 | 21 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wild Rose Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (531 to 535); teachers up 27% (29.5 to 37.3).
About Wild Rose Elementary School
Federal records list Wild Rose Elementary School as an elementary school in Saint Charles, Illinois. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 535 students. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 40% bigger than average.
Besides Wild Rose Elementary School, St Charles CUSD 303 runs 15 other schools. The district enrolls 11,952 students.
The student body at Wild Rose Elementary School is 79% White. After that, the student body is 11% Asian, 6% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Kane County, the White share is about 58%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 36%.
Wild Rose Elementary School has 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The school has 9% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 48% average for public schools in Kane County, the school's rate is lower.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Wild Rose Elementary School is 9.8 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 76.2% actual, 66.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Kane County show that the median household earns about $103,163 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Kane County has 167 public schools with about 87,252 students, including Wild Rose Elementary School.
Thompson Middle School, about 1.1 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Wild Rose Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Wild Rose Elementary School ranks 1st of 4 on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
In 2020-21, Wild Rose Elementary School enrolled 527; in 2024-25, 535.
People who know Wild Rose Elementary School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St Charles CUSD 303
- St Charles East High SchoolHigh · 1,930 students
- St Charles North High SchoolHigh · 1,903 students
- Thompson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,364 students
- Wredling Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,289 students
- Ferson Creek SchoolElementary · 533 students
- Bell-Graham Elementary SchoolElementary · 520 students
Other schools in Saint Charles
- St Charles East High SchoolHigh · 1,930 students
- St Charles North High SchoolHigh · 1,903 students
- Thompson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,364 students
- Wredling Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,289 students
- Ferson Creek SchoolElementary · 533 students
- Bell-Graham Elementary SchoolElementary · 520 students
Other Wild Rose Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Wild Rose Elementary. Wild Rose Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Wild Rose ElementaryWild Rose, WI · 276 students
Nearby schools
- Thompson Middle School1.1 mi · 1,364
- Richmond Elementary School1.1 mi · 385
- Lincoln Elementary School1.6 mi · 221
- Davis Elementary School1.7 mi · 509
- St Charles North High School1.9 mi · 1,903
- Geneva Community High School2.3 mi · 1,635
Frequently asked questions
About Wild Rose Elementary SchoolHow large is Wild Rose Elementary School?
Wild Rose Elementary School enrolls approximately 535 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Wild Rose Elementary School serve?
Wild Rose Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Wild Rose Elementary School?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Wild Rose Elementary School.
How diverse is Wild Rose Elementary School?
Wild Rose Elementary School reports a student body of 79% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 11% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Wild Rose Elementary School?
Wild Rose Elementary School is overseen by St Charles CUSD 303 in Kane County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.