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Public school / Primary

Gary Elementary School

West Chicago, Illinois

NCES ID
174155004159
District
West Chicago ESD 33
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Gary Elementary School is a public primary school in West Chicago, Illinois, run by West Chicago ESD 33. It enrols 443 students — the 44856th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

443students

44856th nationally, tied with 134

Teachers

36.0FTE

30710th nationally, tied with 1,648

Students per teacher

12.3students

22742nd nationally, tied with 836

Free or reduced-price lunch

49.9%percent

50686th nationally, tied with 81

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within West Chicago ESD 33

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Leman Middle School1,124 students
  2. 2Gary Elementary School443 students
  3. 3Wegner Elementary School365 students
  4. 4Currier Elementary School342 students
  5. 5Turner Elem School282 students
  6. 6Indian Knoll Elem School275 students
  7. 7Pioneer Elem School263 students
  8. 8Elc Winfield Primary Annex105 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+9.7%
  • Teachers+38.5%
  • Students per teacher−10.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−6.6%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.