Elm Middle School

As a medium-sized middle school in Elmwood Park, Illinois, Elm Middle School hosts 615 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Elmwood Park CUSD 401. That puts it 33% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Elmwood Park CUSD 401 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,908 students; Elm Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Elm Middle School logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 34% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Elm Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.1%; this one delivers 46.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 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 Elm Middle School is one.

Elmwood Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elm Middle School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elm Middle School has edged up 40%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 615 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 42% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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