The top reported proficiency rate is 72% in English language arts. The lowest is 55% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Anne Fox Elem School
Anne Fox Elementary serves kindergarten through sixth grade in Hanover Park, a diverse Chicago-area suburb in Cook County. The school is part of Schaumburg CCSD 54, a district currently undergoing substantive changes in how it teaches math and reading. Understanding Anne Fox means understanding both the school's academic standing and the instructional environment the district is building around it.
The school serves about a third of a normal elementary enrollment, a modest size for the grade band. The student body is notably diverse: roughly equal numbers of Hispanic, White, and Asian students, with a meaningful Black enrollment as well. Approximately one in five students are Asian, and about one in three are Hispanic. Free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility data were not available, so family income patterns at the school are not visible in the data on hand.
On state testing in reading and math, Anne Fox's results tell a mixed story. In English language arts, the school sits clearly ahead: third graders are near proficiency at better than six in ten, and by fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, proficiency reaches the mid-to-high seventies. These are solid results. Math is weaker. Third and fourth grade math proficiency hovers near five in ten, a softer foundation. Fifth grade improves notably into the low sixties, and sixth grade settles at about six in ten. Science proficiency, tested once in grade five, sits at about six in ten as well. Looking across the school's tested grades overall, Anne Fox's mean proficiency across all subjects sits in the top quarter of schools in Cook County, a real strength. Still, the soft math performance in grades three and four is an area a parent might want to look into further with the school, particularly if a child struggles with computational thinking early on.
The district has just adopted Origo Stepping Stones as the math curriculum for kindergarten through seventh grade and Imagine IM for grades seven through eight. This represents a wholesale change in how math is taught and is brand new in the system. Parents will see this reflected in their children's homework and daily instruction. The district has also launched a new K-2 literacy plan this school year anchored in foundational reading skills, phonological awareness, and word recognition, with universal dyslexia screening in kindergarten using the PEARL tool. These are intentional, research-aligned changes, not minor adjustments.
Hanover Park itself is a stable, family-oriented suburb with one of the youngest median ages of any Chicago-area community. The village markets itself as "America's Global Village," with about eighty nationalities and thirty languages represented, and that diversity is evident at Anne Fox. The community has three business parks as its economic anchors, along with strong transit access via the Metra Milwaukee District West Line, which puts downtown Chicago within an hour's commute. The village is now actively redeveloping around the Metra station with new multifamily housing and a "Village Center," shifting from a dispersed, auto-oriented layout toward something more mixed-use and walkable. Housing values in the area are moderate relative to the wider Chicago market, and rents are reasonable.
The school itself sits on Parkview Drive in a residential neighborhood. No data on specific programs, specializations, class sizes, discipline rates, or attendance were available. Neither were details on staffing or detailed course access for the upper elementary grades. These are reasonable questions to pursue with the school directly. The school appears to operate as a straightforward neighborhood elementary school without magnet status, charter status, or Title I designation, though income and demographic detail sufficient to confirm Title I status was missing from the data.
For families considering Anne Fox, the picture is of a small, diverse neighborhood school in a community actively reshaping itself around transit and new housing. Reading instruction is solid and has real support from the district's new literacy work. Math results are middling in the early grades, which may matter to families whose children need strong foundational arithmetic. The district's newly adopted math curriculum is untested in context, so parents will be watching alongside educators to see how it lands. The broader environment is one of modest but real instructional change, not a school standing still.
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