Burnham Elem School

Located at 13945 S Green Bay Ave, in Burnham, Illinois, Burnham Elem School is an one-room-style elementary campus that hosts 141 students (grades K through 8), run under Burnham SD 154-5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 63% leaner than typical.

Burnham Elem School sits inside Burnham SD 154-5, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Burnham Elem School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%; the rest breaks down as 36% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Burnham Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.6%; this one delivers 28.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Burnham Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Clay Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Burnham Elem School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burnham Elem School has declined 29%, going from 200 students in 2018 to 141 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 42% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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