Enrollment
254
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVANSTON CCSD 65·NCES 171446001216
Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies
3701 Davis St, Skokie, IL 60076 · (847) 859-8441 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL254 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
9.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
178 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 21 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 19 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 23 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 30% larger than its 8th grade class (23).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
31.4%
IL avg 51.0% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
22.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.4% | 22.8% |
| 2023-24 | 32.9% | 20.5% |
% 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
25.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies
Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies's state test result (25.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies this school | 254 | 70.1% | 25.5% |
| Lozano Elementary Bilingual & Intl Center Chicago | 256 | 67.6% | 9.5% |
| Rockdale Elementary School Rockdale | 257 | 71.2% | 24.7% |
| Joseph Jungman Magnet Elementary School Chicago | 301 | 72.8% | 34.2% |
| Rose E Krug Elementary School Aurora | 271 | 66.8% | 18.0% |
| Emerson Elementary School Berwyn | 260 | 65.4% | 34.5% |
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 Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #1,432 of 1,925 | #472 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #1,523 of 2,077 ▼ 359 | #498 of 829 ▼ 144 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #1,629 of 2,077 ▼ 571 | #592 of 829 ▼ 248 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 254 | #1,803 of 2,419 | #741 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #68 of 2,035 | #44 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.8% | #858 of 2,042 | #310 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.1% | #744 of 2,132 | #459 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.5% | #268 of 1,461 | #173 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
254
-9 (-3%) vs 2020
-28% since 2000-01, when it was 353
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 | 254 | 27.1 | 9.4:1 | 70% (178) |
| 2023-24 | 253 | 31.5 | 8.0:1 | 69% (175) |
| 2022-23 | 261 | 35 | 7.5:1 | 64% (167) |
| 2020-21 | 263 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 341 | 31.2 | 10.9:1 | 40% (136) |
| 2015-16 | 372 | 29 | 12.8:1 | 34% (127) |
| 2010-11 | 353 | 27 | 13.1:1 | 39% (136) |
| 2000-01 | 353 | 25 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (341 to 254); teachers down 13% (31.2 to 27.1).
About Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies
Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies is a low-enrollment elementary school in Skokie, Illinois, under Evanston CCSD 65. It teaches 254 students in kindergarten through 8. It has 33% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
Evanston CCSD 65 oversees Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies and 15 other schools, with 6,136 students in total.
At Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies, 66% of students are Hispanic. The school is also 18% Black, 10% White, and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 27% Hispanic share among all Cook County residents. The diversity index for Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies is 52%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies comes to 27.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.4:1. Elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1, 4.6 more students per teacher than here. Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies counts 70% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies lands at C-, ahead of 19% of Illinois public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies falls in the middle 80% of Illinois schools: 25.5% actual against 31.1% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that the median household earns about $83,498 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies.
Walker Elementary School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 53.8%; Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies's is 25.5%, ranking 8th of 8.
NCES assigns Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies had a net loss of 9 students, or 3%.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global StudiesWhat is the total enrollment at Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies?
Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies enrolls approximately 254 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies serve?
Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies have?
Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies?
Student demographics at Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies are roughly 10% White, 66% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies public or private?
Dr Bessie Rhodes-Global Studies is a public K-12 school, overseen by Evanston CCSD 65.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.