Creekside Elementary School

Creekside Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary campus in Plainfield, Illinois, run under Plainfield SD 202, hosts 472 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 24% bigger than typical.

Across the 30 schools in Plainfield SD 202 (24,556 students total), Creekside Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Creekside Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% White, 20% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Creekside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Will County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Creekside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lakewood Falls Elem School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Creekside Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creekside Elementary School has decreased 16%, going from 562 students in 2018 to 472 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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