Clow Elementary School

Coordinates: 41°43′03″N 88°10′26″W / 41.7174°N 88.174°W / 41.7174; -88.174
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Clow Elementary School
Address
Map
1301 Springdale Cir.

,
60564

United States
Coordinates41°43′03″N 88°10′26″W / 41.7174°N 88.174°W / 41.7174; -88.174
Information
School typePublic primary
Opened1979
School districtIndian Prairie SD 204
SuperintendentDr. Adrian Talley[1]
PrincipalKatie Bennett [2]
Staff62
GradesK–5
Genderco-ed
Enrollment368 (2018-19)
Average class size25.1[3]
Campussuburban
MascotCougars
Websitehttp://clow.ipsd.org

Clow Elementary School is an elementary school located on Springdale Circle in Naperville, Illinois, a western Suburb of Chicago, Illinois in DuPage County.[4] Clow Elementary School is one of the twenty-one elementary schools that Indian Prairie School District 204 manages.

About[edit]

The school opened in the year 1979 and along with the Thayer J. Hill Middle School was one of the first schools constructed following the creation of the district and the building of Waubonsie Valley High School.[5] The school serves Indian Prairie School District 204.

The namesake of the school, Robert E. Clow, was the School Board President of District 40. Mr. Clow was a member of a prominent family who owned and operated farms in the region.[6]

Construction and building[edit]

In 1979, when it started, Clow was located in a rural portion of Naperville. Although when the school was opened roads had been constructed leading to it, there were no houses. Volunteers from the neighborhood joined school personnel in landscaping the grounds, with the board members joining in to spend their weekends digging holes and planting bushes and trees.

The walls of the library media center in the school has a large mural painted by a parent in 2013 featuring a boy riding a dragon.[7]

Academics[edit]

The school has maintained high levels of proficiency in English language and arts, math, and science, significantly above the district and state levels.[8] The school is placed in the top five percent in Illinois in terms of overall test scores in math and reading proficiency.[9]

Music[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "IPSD 204: Administration IPSD". ipsdweb.ipsd.org.
  2. ^ "Indian Prairie School District: News". ipsdweb.ipsd.org.
  3. ^ "Illinois Report Card 2019".
  4. ^ "Indian Prairie School District :: Home". ipsdweb.ipsd.org. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  5. ^ http://clow.ipsd.org
  6. ^ "Clow Elementary School :: Nothing to See Here".
  7. ^ "Mom brings books to life on walls of Naperville school". Chicago Tribune.
  8. ^ "Illinois Report Card 2019".
  9. ^ "Public School Review, Robert Clow Elementary School, 2018-19".

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