Schools · Aurora
Aurora, IL schools
Aurora’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 21% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 71% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend one of 21 schools through grade 12, then one of 21 high schools, one of 7 high schools and East High School or West Aurora High School or Hope D Wall TMH Child Dev Ctr.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D
Aurora’s School Grade: D
The public schools Aurora’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 89% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C-Test scoresD-Graduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 11%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,480)Better than 5%
Towns in Kane County (16)Better than 0%
High confidence. Built on 6,338 tested students and a graduating class of 994; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2018.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Illinois only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Illinois with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Aurora kids go to school
Grades 12
C-East High School or B-West Aurora High School or Hope D Wall TMH Child Dev Ctr
Depends on your address Aurora East Unit School District 131Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (Aurora West Unit School District 129)21%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades PK–12, Aurora East Unit School District 131)11%
State average 30.7%
Math (Aurora West Unit School District 129)15%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades PK–12, Aurora East Unit School District 131)5%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
71% graduate on time
Graduation rate
71%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
994
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Two districts serve Aurora
Aurora West Unit School District 129Grades PK–12 · 17 schools · 11,020 students
$17,236 per studentIL $21,567C-Aurora East Unit School District 131Grades PK–12 · 20 schools · 12,187 students
$19,119 per studentIL $21,567D-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 47 schools in Aurora
Showing 1–30 of 47 schools
Olney C Allen Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 712 students
D-PublicC M Bardwell Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 679 students
C-PublicNicholas A Hermes Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 607 students
C-PublicFreeman Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 529 students
C+PublicGreenman Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 528 students
CPublicMcCleery Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 513 students
CPublicHall Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 512 students
C-PublicHill Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 511 students
C-PublicEdna Rollins Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 508 students
DPublicG N Dieterich Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 507 students
C-PublicJohn Gates Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 427 students
C-PublicSmith Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 425 students
C-PublicMabel O Donnell Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 360 students
C-PublicOak Park Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 353 students
C-PublicNicholson Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 337 students
C-PublicBenavides Steam AcademyElementary · Grades K–2 · 326 students
PublicGoodwin Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 315 students
C+PublicL D Brady Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 310 students
DPublicRose E Krug Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 271 students
DPublicC I Johnson Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 3–5 · 269 students
C+PublicW S Beaupre Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 226 students
C-PublicHenry W Cowherd Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 807 students
C-PublicC F Simmons Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 792 students
DPublicK D Waldo Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 729 students
DPublicWashington Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 690 students
C+PublicJefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 577 students
CPublicFred Rodgers Magnet AcadMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 284 students
BPublicEast High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 4,020 students
C-PublicWest Aurora High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 3,641 students
B-PublicIllinois Mathematics and ScienceHigh · Grades 10–12 · 656 students
PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.