Fox Meadow Elementary School, South Elgin IL

Original Research by School Decision on Fox Meadow Elementary School

Fox Meadow Elementary School serves kindergarten through sixth grade in South Elgin, a suburban village in Kane County northwest of Chicago. The school is part of School District U-46, a sprawling district that includes Elgin, Bartlett, Hanover Park, and Streamwood. South Elgin itself is a family-oriented riverside community anchored by a downtown along the Fox River, with residential subdivisions and a retail corridor along Randall Road. The area is car-dependent, though the Fox River Trail and riverfront parks give it a more walkable center. New apartment communities and single-family subdivisions are under construction, and median home values reflect a moderately priced suburban market.

Fox Meadow has a small enrollment for its grade band and serves a diverse student body. The school population is roughly evenly split between Hispanic and white students, with smaller shares of Asian, Black, and multiracial students. Enrollment data broken down by grade shows the school maintains classes across all grades from pre-K through sixth. Free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility rates and counts of students receiving special education or English learner services were not available in the data.

On the Illinois Assessment of Readiness in 2024-25, the school's proficiency results show a clear pattern of decline as students move through the upper grades. In third grade, about a quarter of students tested met the proficiency standard in both math and English language arts. By sixth grade, that picture narrows substantially: fewer than a third of students demonstrated proficiency in ELA, and about a quarter did in math. Fifth-grade science proficiency was a third. The school is below the midpoint for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades relative to other districts in Kane County. This downward arc through the elementary years is the most significant finding in the testing data a parent should know; a parent may want to discuss with the school whether specific support or intervention is in place for students in the upper grades and what the school's response to these trends has been.

District U-46 is in the midst of substantial change. In April 2023, voters approved a major bond referendum to rebuild five aging elementary schools and construct new middle schools, the first new middle school builds in the district in over a generation. Hawk Hollow Middle School in Bartlett opened in 2025-26; a second new middle school in Elgin opens in 2027. The district is shifting to a 6-8 middle school model, introducing a daily advisory period for social-emotional learning and academic intervention, and rolling out new math and literacy curricula. Starting in 2025-26, elementary schools extended their instructional day as part of a new teachers contract. These changes reshape schedules and instruction across the district.

Housing and community context in South Elgin reflects moderate suburban pricing. Median home values in the area are in the mid-range for the Chicago suburbs. Rental costs are also typical for the region. The area sits in an active real-estate market with new inventory coming online. Commuters have access to Metra service through adjacent towns and Pace bus routes.

The school sits in a district positioned for facility modernization and curricular refresh, but Fox Meadow's testing profile in the upper grades warrants direct questions about instructional supports, intervention structures, and whether the new resources reaching the district are being deployed here. The school's small enrollment and diverse student makeup are facts to understand about the peer environment and community context. No graduation rate data applies, as the school does not serve high school grades.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 365%

School 65% · District 45% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 39% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 31% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 630%

School 30% · District 26% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 358%

School 58% · District 38% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 462%

School 62% · District 42% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 48% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 45% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Science

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 32% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

This schoolSD U-46, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.