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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 7

Prairie Knolls Middle Sch, Elgin, IL

Prairie Knolls Middle Sch is a public middle school in Elgin, part of Central CUSD 301. It enrolled 770 students in 2024-25, with 17.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
770
Teachers (FTE)
44.0
Students per teacher
17.5
Grades
6 to 7

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.0. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.5
District17.0
Illinois13.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
225 Nesler Rd, Elgin, IL 60124
Phone
(847)717-8100
District
Central CUSD 301
County
Kane County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Midsize
NCES school ID
170783005957
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free or reduced-price lunch
12916.8% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Central CUSD 301

Middle schools elsewhere in Elgin

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.