Arcadia Elem School

Arcadia Elem School is a moderately sized K-5 school in Olympia Fields, Illinois, operated by Matteson ESD 162. The school instructs 516 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 35% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Matteson ESD 162 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,405 students. Arcadia Elem School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Arcadia Elem School reports that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arcadia Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.3%; this one delivers 36.1%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Arcadia Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rich Township High School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Arcadia Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Arcadia Elem School's enrollment has expanded 15% since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 516). Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Arcadia Elem School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.