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Enrollment
434
Elementary
DISTRICT 296 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOLTON SD 149·NCES 171242001489
Caroline Sibley Elementary School
1550 Sibley Blvd, Calumet City, IL 60409 · (708) 868-1870 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL434 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Illinois public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.8:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
433 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Caroline Sibley Elementary School→Creative Communications Academy→School of Fine Arts→S T E M Academy
Based on grade levels within Dolton SD 149. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
19.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.8pp since 2023
Math
9.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.9% | 9.4% |
| 2023-24 | 10.1% | 5.6% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Caroline Sibley Elementary School
Caroline Sibley Elementary School's state test result (12.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Sibley Elementary School this school | 434 | 99.8% | 12.3% |
| Jesse C White Learning Academy Hazel Crest | 425 | 98.6% | 15.5% |
| Providence-Englewood Elementary Charter Chicago | 428 | 97.0% | 22.7% |
| Herzl Elementary School Chicago | 429 | 97.2% | 4.0% |
| Haley Elementary Academy Chicago | 458 | 98.0% | 18.6% |
| Katie Harper-Wright Elementary School East Saint Louis | 418 | 99.0% | 16.8% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Caroline Sibley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.3% | #1,833 of 1,925 | #714 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.4% | #1,934 of 2,077 ▼ 93 | #730 of 829 ▼ 52 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #1,926 of 2,077 ▼ 3 | #763 of 829 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 434 | #820 of 2,419 | #371 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.8:1 | #2,014 of 2,035 | #809 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.8% | #1,798 of 2,042 | #679 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.8% | #17 of 2,132 | #9 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.8% | #129 of 1,461 | #85 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
434
-86 (-17%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 762
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 434 | 17.5 | 24.8:1 | 100% (433) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 19 | 27.6:1 | 100% (523) |
| 2022-23 | 518 | 19 | 27.3:1 | 99% (514) |
| 2020-21 | 520 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 646 | 30 | 21.5:1 | 100% (643) |
| 2015-16 | 685 | 35 | 19.6:1 | 99% (677) |
| 2010-11 | 826 | 38 | 21.7:1 | 89% (734) |
| 2000-01 | 713 | 44 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 762 | 34 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Caroline Sibley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (646 to 434); teachers down 42% (30 to 17.5).
About Caroline Sibley Elementary School
Caroline Sibley Elementary School is an elementary school located in Calumet City, Illinois, in Cook County. Enrollment stands at 434 students, covering kindergarten through 5.
Caroline Sibley Elementary School is one school in Dolton SD 149, a system of 8 schools with 2,192 students.
Caroline Sibley Elementary School is 93% Black by enrollment. The next largest groups are 6% Hispanic. In Cook County overall, about 22% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Caroline Sibley Elementary School scores 14%.
Its staff includes 17.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 24.8 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is lower. Caroline Sibley Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 100%. Across public schools in Cook County, the average is 66%.
Caroline Sibley Elementary School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 12% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Caroline Sibley Elementary School would be expected to post about 13.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 12.3%.
In the wider Cook County area, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Cook County, 1,406 public schools serve about 697,934 students.
The closest school to Caroline Sibley Elementary School is Carol Moseley Braun School, located about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 17.6% on proficiency, and Caroline Sibley Elementary School is below that at 12.3%.
Caroline Sibley Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school's student count fell 17% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dolton SD 149
- New Beginnings Learning AcademyElementary · 288 students
- Berger-Vandenberg Elementary SchoolElementary · 266 students
- Carol Moseley Braun SchoolElementary · 264 students
- Creative Communications AcademyMiddle · 246 students
- S T E M AcademyMiddle · 243 students
- Diekman Elementary SchoolElementary · 227 students
Other schools in Calumet City
- Thornton Fractnl No High SchoolHigh · 1,425 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 571 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 349 students
- Wentworth Intermediate SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Wentworth Jr High SchoolMiddle · 302 students
Nearby schools
- Carol Moseley Braun School0.5 mi · 264
- School of Fine Arts0.5 mi · 224
- Creative Communications Academy0.5 mi · 246
- S T E M Academy0.5 mi · 243
- Wentworth Intermediate School0.9 mi · 315
- Wentworth Jr High School0.9 mi · 302
Frequently asked questions
About Caroline Sibley Elementary SchoolHow large is Caroline Sibley Elementary School?
Caroline Sibley Elementary School enrolls approximately 434 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Caroline Sibley Elementary School serve?
Caroline Sibley Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Caroline Sibley Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Caroline Sibley Elementary School is approximately 24.8:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Caroline Sibley Elementary School?
At Caroline Sibley Elementary School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 6% Hispanic, 93% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Caroline Sibley Elementary School in?
Caroline Sibley Elementary School is part of Dolton SD 149.
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