Is Deer Path Elementary School a good school?

Deer Path Elementary School ranks 643 rd of 2067 Illinois elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 3 stars out of 5.

How many students attend Deer Path Elementary School?

In the 2022-23 school year, 485 students attended Deer Path Elementary School.

What is the racial makeup of Deer Path Elementary School?

Students at Deer Path Elementary School are 77% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Two or more races, 2% Asian.

What schools do graduates of Deer Path Elementary School attend?

Students who attend Deer Path Elementary School usually go on to attend: Middle : Cary Junior High School High : Cary-Grove Community High School

Deer Path Elementary School

Summary:

Deer Path Elementary School is a public elementary school located in Cary, Illinois, serving 485 students in grades K-5. The school is part of the Cary CCSD 26 district, which is ranked 329 out of 813 districts in Illinois and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Deer Path Elementary School is a generally high-performing school, with strong academic results in English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, and Science. The school's overall proficiency rates in ELA and Mathematics are above the state averages, and its performance in Science is particularly strong, with 75.3% of students proficient or better, significantly higher than the state average of 53.2%. The school's performance is generally consistent across grade levels, with 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade students all scoring above the state averages in ELA and Mathematics. However, the school faces challenges in addressing the performance gap for Hispanic and English Language Learner (ELL) students, who perform lower compared to their peers.

Deer Path Elementary School generally outperforms the other nearby schools in the Cary CCSD 26 district, such as Briargate Elementary and Three Oaks School, in both ELA and Mathematics proficiency rates. However, some nearby schools, such as North Elementary and Prairie Grove Elementary, which are in other districts, have higher overall academic performance than Deer Path. Additionally, the school has seen a significant increase in chronic absenteeism, rising from 3.8% in 2019-2020 to 22.7% in 2021-2022, before declining to 13.3% in the 2023-2024 school year, which is a concerning trend that the school and district should address.

Detail:

Public K-5

2211 Crystal Lake Rd
Cary, IL 60013-1470

(224) 357-5350

District: Cary CCSD 26

SchoolDigger Rank:
643^rd of 2,067 Illinois Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures: $15,903

Students who attend Deer Path Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:	Cary Junior High School
High:	Cary-Grove Community High School

Student/teacher ratio: 14.0

Number of students: 485

Racial breakdown:

White:

77.3%

Hispanic:

17.1%

Two or more races:

2.5%

Free/discounted lunch recipients: 20.8%

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Performance Trends

Compare Details Deer Path Elementary School ranks better than 68.9% of elementary schools in Illinois. It also ranks first among 3 ranked elementary schools in the Cary CCSD 26 School District! (See more...)

Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 65.42. (See more...)

Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.

Student Body

Compare Details Deer Path Elementary School has the largest elementary school student body size in the Cary CCSD 26 School District. (See more...)

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Finance

Compare Details The average total spent per student at Deer Path Elementary School is $15,903, which is the 2^nd highest among 3 elementary schools in the Cary CCSD 26 School District.

Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Deer Path Elementary School:

SchoolDigger ranks Deer Path Elementary School 643^rd of 2067 Illinois public elementary schools. (See Deer Path Elementary School in the ranking list.)

Elementary School Test Score Ratings by Student Subgroup:

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Cary CCSD 26:

SchoolDigger ranks Cary CCSD 26 329^th of 813 Illinois school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for Deer Path Elementary School

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Rank History for all students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2003	77.67	436^th	2020	78.4%
2004	74.65	538^th	2030	73.5%
2005	73.56	542^nd	2022	73.2%
2006	73.33	574^th	2086	72.5%
2007	76.33	446^th	2095	78.7%
2008	73.89	586^th	2092	72.0%
2009	81.59	285^th	2120	86.6%
2010	83.16	206^th	2139	90.4%
2011	79.89	363^rd	2147	83.1%
2012	84.29	172^nd	2166	92.1%
2013	83.94	299^th	2167	86.2%
2014	80.68	368^th	2093	82.4%
2015	83.07	308^th	2052	85.0%
2016	73.91	481^st	2046	76.5%
2017	83.69	288^th	2044	85.9%
2018	78.04	412^th	2037	79.8%
2019	72.29	518^th	2086	75.2%
2021	66.96	548^th	1948	71.9%
2022	60.19	751^st	2082	63.9%
2023	70.35	557^th	2077	73.2%
2024	65.42	643^rd	2067	68.9%

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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2022	38.11	476^th	768	38.0%
2023	72.26	110^th	788	86.0%
2024	42.34	437^th	826	47.1%

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Rank History for Special Education students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2019	19.39	1154^th	1194	3.4%
2021	55.46	215^th	640	66.4%
2022	39.14	568^th	1113	49.0%
2023	57.68	366^th	1156	68.3%
2024	60.97	344^th	1195	71.2%

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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	66.96	404^th	1765	77.1%
2019	54.67	691^st	1816	61.9%
2021	65.45	326^th	1514	78.5%
2022	49.23	795^th	1763	54.9%
2023	63.68	482^nd	1808	73.3%
2024	59.44	563^rd	1793	68.6%

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Rank History for Female students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	75.99	407^th	1964	79.3%
2019	68.76	559^th	2019	72.3%
2021	57.49	628^th	1680	62.6%
2022	48.91	883^rd	1970	55.2%
2023	56.84	746^th	1957	61.9%
2024	53.62	785^th	1942	59.6%

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Rank History for Disabled students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2023	44.96	396^th	907	56.3%
2024	55.40	283^rd	886	68.1%

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Rank History for Male students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	78.22	367^th	1972	81.4%
2019	74.16	443^rd	2019	78.1%
2021	69.96	427^th	1707	75.0%
2022	68.97	533^rd	1977	73.0%
2023	77.58	375^th	1984	81.1%
2024	73.13	465^th	1959	76.3%

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Rank History for Hispanic students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	70.45	183^rd	938	80.5%
2019	43.94	517^th	955	45.9%
2021	29.81	543^rd	742	26.8%
2022	36.95	580^th	954	39.2%
2023	45.88	472^nd	970	51.3%
2024	39.39	554^th	959	42.2%

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Rank History for White students at Deer Path Elementary School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	66.39	444^th	1463	69.7%
2019	59.10	567^th	1462	61.2%
2021	58.66	498^th	1308	61.9%
2022	46.91	748^th	1425	47.5%
2023	55.66	598^th	1419	57.9%
2024	50.76	682^nd	1392	51.0%

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Data source: test scores: Illinois State Board of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

Data source: Illinois State Board of Education

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Enrollment information for Deer Path Elementary School

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Year	White	African American	Asian	Hispanic	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Not Specified	Total
1999	551	0	4	39	0	n/a	n/a	0	594
2000	560	0	3	38	0	n/a	n/a	0	601
2001	611	5	3	39	0	n/a	n/a	0	658
2002	392	0	3	27	0	n/a	n/a	0	422
2003	392	0	3	27	0	n/a	n/a	0	422
2004	446	4	10	31	0	n/a	n/a	0	491
2005	472	1	22	37	0	n/a	n/a	14	546
2006	499	3	22	44	0	n/a	n/a	28	596
2007	506	3	21	42	0	n/a	n/a	25	597
2008	498	1	20	49	0	n/a	n/a	44	612
2009	449	1	17	37	4	n/a	n/a	35	543
2010	442	2	19	36	0	n/a	n/a	35	534
2011	511	2	16	49	13	1	17	0	609
2012	475	1	16	50	7	1	24	0	574
2013	444	1	17	36	6	1	17	0	522
2014	447	2	10	53	5	1	22	0	540
2015	437	3	10	50	3	2	19	0	524
2016	431	4	8	63	2	2	15	0	525
2017	419	3	10	68	0	2	20	0	522
2018	452	3	8	76	0	1	31	0	571
2019	382	3	6	48	0	1	24	0	464
2020	360	1	8	42	0	0	24	0	435
2021	332	2	10	70	0	0	20	0	434
2022	345	3	9	82	0	0	12	0	451
2023	375	4	11	83	0	0	12	0	485

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Deer Path Elementary School

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
1999	594	33.2	17.9	n/a
2000	601	32.9	18.3	n/a
2001	658	34.0	19.4	n/a
2002	422	25.5	16.5	6.6
2003	422	25.5	16.5	6.6
2004	491	28.0	17.5	7.9
2005	546	28.4	19.2	6
2006	596	27.7	21.5	8.1
2007	597	26.0	23.0	9.8
2008	612	28.0	21.9	9.5
2009	543	34.2	15.9	8.7
2010	534	29.0	18.3	8.2
2011	609	25.1	24.1	14.4
2012	574	25.1	22.8	17.9
2013	522	28.4	18.3	16.1
2014	540	30.5	17.6	13.7
2015	524	33.0	15.8	21.2
2016	525	35.0	15.0	17.9
2017	522	34.5	15.1	18.8
2018	571	37.0	15.4	18.9
2019	464	34.5	13.4	18.5
2020	435	29.3	14.8	20.2
2021	434	n/a	n/a	n/a
2022	451	30.5	14.7	18.8
2023	485	34.6	14.0	20.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Deer Path Elementary School

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
1999	594	33.2	17.9	n/a
2000	601	32.9	18.3	n/a
2001	658	34.0	19.4	n/a
2002	422	25.5	16.5	6.6
2003	422	25.5	16.5	6.6
2004	491	28.0	17.5	7.9
2005	546	28.4	19.2	6
2006	596	27.7	21.5	8.1
2007	597	26.0	23.0	9.8
2008	612	28.0	21.9	9.5
2009	543	34.2	15.9	8.7
2010	534	29.0	18.3	8.2
2011	609	25.1	24.1	14.4
2012	574	25.1	22.8	17.9
2013	522	28.4	18.3	16.1
2014	540	30.5	17.6	13.7
2015	524	33.0	15.8	21.2
2016	525	35.0	15.0	17.9
2017	522	34.5	15.1	18.8
2018	571	37.0	15.4	18.9
2019	464	34.5	13.4	18.5
2020	435	29.3	14.8	20.2
2021	434	n/a	n/a	n/a
2022	451	30.5	14.7	18.8
2023	485	34.6	14.0	20.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.

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