Crystal Lawns Elem School

Crystal Lawns Elem School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Joliet, Illinois, overseen by Plainfield SD 202, educates 328 students, covering grades K through 5.

Crystal Lawns Elem School is one of 30 schools operated by Plainfield SD 202, a district that works with 24,556 students overall.

On demographics, Crystal Lawns Elem School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 39% White, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Crystal Lawns Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crystal Lawns Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Will County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,984, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Will County runs 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), of which Crystal Lawns Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grand Prairie Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Crystal Lawns Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

Crystal Lawns Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Crystal Lawns Elem School's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 371 (now 328). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 33% to 46% over that span.

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