Cambridge Lakes Charter School, established in 2007, is a K-8th grade school and middle school with an Academy of 9-12th grade located on a 15-acre campus in Pingree Grove, IL (Kane County) and is part of Community Unit School District 300. Students can transfer to the school or out-of-district students can pay tuition. The student teacher ratio rose from 14.9 to 21 in 2015 with approximately 869 students. The school was ranked the #1 Elementary and Middle School in Illinois by niche.com. Schooldiggger.com ranks them 115th of 1,309 of Illinois public middle schools. The parent company- Northern Kane Educational Corp. (NKEC) planned to make capital improvements, acquire approximately 1.65 acres of land, construct a new parking lot and refund debt. Prior debt was used to pay for the costs of the acquisition, design, improvements, construction and equipping of several buildings, the Annex, the tutoring center, the Retherm Link, classrooms and site work for Circle Drive.
The Campus is known as the Cambridge Lakes Learning Center on an approximately 15-acre campus located at 900 Wester Boulevard and related addresses at 805-840 Campus Drive and 1115 Cambridge Lakes Drive in Pingree Grove. On December 14, 2017, bonds were issued in the amount of $18,750,000 to help create 43 full-time jobs.
The Project closed in 2017.