Enrollment
260
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BERWYN SOUTH SD 100·NCES 170609000289
Emerson Elementary School
6850 31st St, Berwyn, IL 60402 · (708) 795-2322 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL260 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
170 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 9 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
42.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +22.2pp since 2023
Math
30.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +13.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.4% | 30.4% |
| 2023-24 | 20.2% | 16.7% |
% 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
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Emerson Elementary School
Emerson Elementary School's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson Elementary School this school | 260 | 65.4% | 34.5% |
| Harry E Fry School Burbank | 268 | 65.7% | 36.8% |
| J B Kennedy Elementary School Burbank | 295 | 66.4% | 41.6% |
| Rose E Krug Elementary School Aurora | 271 | 66.8% | 18.0% |
| Sunnydale Elementary School Streamwood | 263 | 64.3% | 38.9% |
| Richard Byrd Elementary School Burbank | 266 | 61.3% | 36.5% |
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 Emerson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,109 of 1,925 | #326 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #1,268 of 2,077 ▲ 61 | #389 of 829 ▲ 34 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #1,270 of 2,077 ▲ 289 | #424 of 829 ▲ 150 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 260 | #1,771 of 2,419 | #724 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #872 of 2,035 | #408 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.2% | #1,198 of 2,042 | #447 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.4% | #861 of 2,132 | #503 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.8% | #202 of 1,461 | #127 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
260
-8 (-3%) vs 2020
+36% since 1990-91, when it was 191
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 | 260 | 20.1 | 12.9:1 | 65% (170) |
| 2023-24 | 246 | 23 | 10.7:1 | 67% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 237 | 24 | 9.9:1 | 67% (159) |
| 2020-21 | 268 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 365 | 26.1 | 14.0:1 | 65% (239) |
| 2015-16 | 347 | 27 | 12.8:1 | 59% (206) |
| 2010-11 | 341 | 26 | 13.1:1 | 64% (218) |
| 2000-01 | 340 | 25 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 191 | 13 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emerson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (365 to 260); teachers down 23% (26.1 to 20.1).
About Emerson Elementary School
Emerson Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school, is located in Berwyn, Illinois. The school had 260 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381, so this school runs 32% smaller than that.
Emerson Elementary School is one school in Berwyn South SD 100, a system of 8 schools with 3,050 students.
By race and ethnicity, Emerson Elementary School is 77% Hispanic. It is also 14% White and 7% Black. For comparison, the population of Cook County is roughly 27% Hispanic. By the diversity index, Emerson Elementary School comes in at 38%.
Staffing totals 20.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.9:1. That ratio is under the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Emerson Elementary School is 65%. Across public schools in Cook County, the average is about the same, 66%.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 33.8% for Emerson Elementary School. The school posts 34.5%, within a point of the prediction.
According to the American Community Survey, in Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Emerson Elementary School is one of 1,406 public schools in Cook County, which together enroll about 697,934 students.
The nearest other public school, Heritage Middle School, is less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Emerson Elementary School ranks 7th of 9 on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Emerson Elementary School saw enrollment fall 3% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Emerson Elementary School. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
Related schools
Other schools in Berwyn South SD 100
- Freedom Middle SchoolMiddle · 504 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 447 students
- Pershing Elementary SchoolElementary · 418 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Komensky Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
Other schools in Berwyn
- J Sterling Morton West High SchoolHigh · 3,374 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 793 students
- Prairie Oak SchoolElementary · 698 students
- Freedom Middle SchoolMiddle · 504 students
- Karel Havlicek Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
Other Emerson Elementary schools
35 other US public schools in 18 states are named Emerson Elementary. Emerson Elementary School is the 28th largest of the 36.
- Emerson Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 429 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolMaywood, IL · 364 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolWheaton, IL · 263 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 990 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 717 students
Nearby schools
- Heritage Middle School0.0 mi · 447
- Irving Elementary School0.5 mi · 415
- Freedom Middle School0.6 mi · 504
- Blythe Park Elementary School0.6 mi · 230
- Hiawatha Elementary School0.7 mi · 394
- Piper School0.7 mi · 292
Frequently asked questions
About Emerson Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School enrolls approximately 260 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Emerson Elementary School serve?
Emerson Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Emerson Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Emerson Elementary School.
How diverse is Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School reports a student body of 14% White, 77% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School is overseen by Berwyn South SD 100 in Cook County.
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