NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in South Elgin, IL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

6 public K-12 schools in South Elgin from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

5,568

Students

36/100

Avg Resource Index

17.3:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, South Elgin has more public-school enrollment than 60% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. South Elgin High School enrolls 47.9% of South Elgin's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of South Elgin's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 28-point gap between Corron Elementary School and Willard Elem School shows the range hidden by South Elgin's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment: Top 40%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 28th percentile
Teacher staffing: 31st percentile

South Elgin High School accounts for 47.9% of all South Elgin public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of South Elgin a distant remainder — means South Elgin-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-11

South Elgin school enrollment varies 7.2× across entities

South Elgin school enrollment ranges from 370 students (lowest) to 2,665 students (highest), a spread of 2,295 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-11

South Elgin student-teacher ratio is 17.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within South Elgin is typically wider than the South Elgin-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-11

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Corron Elementary School	54	487	elementary	St Charles Cusd 303
2.	South Elgin High School	47	2,665	high	Sd U-46
3.	Fox Meadow Elementary School	32	577	Combined	Sd U-46
4.	Kenyon Woods Middle School	29	873	middle	Sd U-46
5.	Clinton Elem School	28	596	elementary	Sd U-46
6.	Willard Elem School	26	370	elementary	Sd U-46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in South Elgin

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which South Elgin school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Corron Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the South Elgin schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in South Elgin, IL? ▼

South Elgin has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,568 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.