Public school / Primary
Independence Elem School
Bolingbrook, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 174007004028
- District
- Valley View CUSD 365u
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Independence Elem School is a public primary school in Bolingbrook, Illinois, run by Valley View CUSD 365u. It enrols 620 students — the 25050th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.
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
620
Teachers
43.0
Students per teacher
14.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.1%
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.
Within Valley View CUSD 365u
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.
- 1Bolingbrook High School3,405 students
- 2Romeoville High School1,922 students
- 3Brooks Middle School933 students
- 4Hubert H Humphrey Middle School690 students
- 5Oak View Elem School685 students
- 6A Vito Martinez Middle School638 students
- 7Independence Elem School620 students
- 8John J Lukancic Middle Sch619 students
- Enrollment+53.5%
- Teachers+65.4%
- Students per teacher+5.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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