Clearview Elem School

Clearview Elem School is a moderately sized elementary school in Waukegan, Illinois, overseen by Waukegan CUSD 60. The school instructs 404 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Waukegan CUSD 60 comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 13,640 students; Clearview Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Clearview Elem School shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 10% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Clearview Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Clearview Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lake County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clearview Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.6%; Clearview Elem School posts 10.5%, -21.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which Clearview Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Early Learning Center, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clearview Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clearview Elem School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 23.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Clearview Elem School's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 580 (now 404). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 67% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.