Edgar A Poe Elem School

Edgar A Poe Elem School is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Arlington Heights, Illinois, part of Wheeling CCSD 21, with 317 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Edgar A Poe Elem School is one of 12 schools operated by Wheeling CCSD 21, a district that instructs 6,298 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Edgar A Poe Elem School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Edgar A Poe Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Edgar A Poe Elem School is one.

Greenbrier Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edgar A Poe Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Edgar A Poe Elem School's enrollment has fell 30% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 317). Over the same period, the Asian share decreased from 27% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.