Burr Oak Elem School

Burr Oak Elem School, a tight-knit elementary campus in Calumet Park, Illinois, overseen by Calumet Public SD 132, caters to 290 students, covering grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Burr Oak Elem School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Calumet Public SD 132 (895 students total), Burr Oak Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Burr Oak Elem School shows that Black students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 32.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Burr Oak Elem School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.4%; actual is 16.4%, a gap of -40.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows that 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Burr Oak Elem School is one.

Burr Oak Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Burr Oak Elem School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 24.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burr Oak Elem School has declined 12%, going from 329 students in 2018 to 290 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 23% to 31%. Class-load math has rose: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 32.2:1 in 2025.

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