Arnold W Kruse Ed Center

Arnold W Kruse Ed Center operates as a medium-sized primary school in Orland Park, Illinois, overseen by CCSD 146. Current enrollment sits at 462 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Arnold W Kruse Ed Center sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

CCSD 146 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,325 students; Arnold W Kruse Ed Center is among them.

Looking at the student body, Arnold W Kruse Ed Center records that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 19% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Arnold W Kruse Ed Center has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Arnold W Kruse Ed Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 58.6%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Arnold W Kruse Ed Center is one campus in the mix.

Helen Keller Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arnold W Kruse Ed Center.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 12%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 67% to 56%.

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