The top reported proficiency rate is 66% in Math. The lowest is 52% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Kenneth E Neubert Elem School
Kenneth E Neubert Elementary School serves kindergarten through fifth grade in Algonquin, a northwest Chicago suburb that has grown considerably over the past two decades. The school is part of Community Unit School District 300, which spans the area and faces both enrollment pressure and infrastructure challenges tied to ongoing residential development.
The school enrolls a small to mid-sized student body across its grade span. The enrollment is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller Asian and multiracial cohorts; the school's racial composition differs from many peer schools in its region. The school serves a catchment that appears economically mixed, though free-or-reduced-price-lunch data was not available to establish poverty rates. Test participation is consistently strong, with near-universal rates across administered assessments.
On state assessments administered in 2024-25, Neubert's results show a mixed profile. In mathematics, third-grade students performed solidly at proficiency, while fourth graders performed somewhat above that level. Fifth-grade math proficiency dropped noticeably, sitting below the third and fourth grade benchmarks. In English language arts, third graders showed weaker proficiency, fourth graders improved to mid-range performance, and fifth graders reached higher ground. In science, fifth-grade proficiency landed at just below half of students. Across these tested grades and subjects, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile of elementary schools within McHenry County, suggesting it outperforms the median elementary school in its immediate regional comparison set, though variation across grades and subjects indicates uneven strength.
The school does not serve grades six through eight, so no assessments are reported for those grade levels; this reflects the elementary mission and feeder-school structure.
Algonquin itself has experienced substantial growth, with major residential developments underway and major retail anchors including Motorola Solutions, Walgreens, and the Algonquin Commons lifestyle center employing significant numbers. The Fox River historic downtown, or Old Town, offers a walkable small-town character, though most of the residential and school neighborhoods are auto-oriented along the Randall Road commercial corridor. Housing values in the area reflect suburban market conditions, and mortgage and rental affordability remain moderate relative to national benchmarks.
District 300 is managing growth pressures through facilities planning. The district completed a long-term Master Facility Plan in 2024 called "Together for Tomorrow" and is exploring a facilities funding referendum for the November 2026 ballot, as aging buildings and projected enrollment growth over the coming decade are expected to exceed the district's routine maintenance budget substantially. The district also redrew high school attendance boundaries in late 2025, reassigning portions of the Hampshire High School feeder area to Jacobs High in Algonquin starting in 2026-27. These changes signal both infrastructure strain and the district's effort to manage capacity as new subdivisions bring families into the area. A parent may want to look into the school's current staffing and intervention supports, given the variation in proficiency across grades, and to track the outcome of the November 2026 referendum, as facility improvements and capacity management will shape the school's environment over the next several years.
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