Public school / Primary
Joyce Kilmer Elem School
Buffalo Grove, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 174221004242
- District
- Wheeling CCSD 21
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Joyce Kilmer Elem School is a public primary school in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, run by Wheeling CCSD 21. It enrols 530 students — the 33768th 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
530
Teachers
35.0
Students per teacher
15.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
51.7%
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 Wheeling CCSD 21
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.
- 1Cooper Middle School675 students
- 2Oliver W Holmes Middle School613 students
- 3Jack London Middle School596 students
- 4Eugene Field Elem School577 students
- 5Robert Frost Elem School561 students
- 6Booth Tarkington Elem School551 students
- 7Joyce Kilmer Elem School530 students
- 8Henry W Longfellow Elem School489 students
- Enrollment+31.2%
- Teachers+34.6%
- Students per teacher+10.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−3.2%
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