Central Elem School

As an average-sized elementary school in Riverside, Illinois, Central Elem School caters to 371 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Riverside SD 96.

Riverside SD 96 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,794 students; Central Elem School is among them.

Demographically, Central Elem School records that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Central Elem School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.6%; actual is 74.2%, +17.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 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), Central Elem School is one campus in the mix.

L J Hauser Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Elem School. On composite proficiency, Central Elem School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

Central Elem School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Central Elem School's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 399 (now 371). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 66% to 62%.

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