Enrollment
364
Elementary
DISTRICT 412 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MAYWOOD-MELROSE PARK-BROADVIEW 89·NCES 172511002737
Emerson Elementary School
311 Washington Blvd, Maywood, IL 60153 · (708) 450-2002 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL364 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
209 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 35 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Emerson Elementary School→Stevenson Middle School
Based on grade levels within Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
35.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.3pp since 2023
Math
11.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 11.3% |
| 2023-24 | 27.7% | 3.9% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 38% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 (22.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson Elementary School this school | 364 | 57.4% | 22.0% |
| Garfield Elementary School Maywood | 411 | 60.6% | 23.4% |
| Sayre Elementary Language Academy Chicago | 377 | 56.8% | 31.5% |
| Wentworth Intermediate School Calumet City | 315 | 62.5% | 14.7% |
| Hillside Elementary School Hillside | 440 | 60.9% | 31.4% |
| Northeast Elementary School Evergreen Park | 329 | 52.9% | 34.0% |
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 | 22.0% | #1,542 of 1,925 | #529 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.3% | #1,858 of 2,077 ▲ 62 | #682 of 829 ▲ 50 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,512 of 2,077 ▼ 233 | #541 of 829 ▼ 103 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 364 | #1,184 of 2,419 | #491 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,061 of 2,035 | #480 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.1% | #823 of 2,042 | #294 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.4% | #1,086 of 2,132 | #560 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.3% | #795 of 1,461 | #414 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
364
+18 (+5%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 607
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 | 364 | 27 | 13.5:1 | 57% (209) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 26.5 | 13.6:1 | 64% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 336 | 27 | 12.4:1 | 50% (167) |
| 2020-21 | 346 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 25.4 | 16.3:1 | 43% (180) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 24 | 18.8:1 | 73% (327) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 23 | 17.3:1 | 81% (322) |
| 2000-01 | 548 | 36 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 607 | 28 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emerson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (415 to 364); teachers up 6% (25.4 to 27).
About Emerson Elementary School
Emerson Elementary School is an elementary school located in Maywood, Illinois, in Cook County. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 364 students.
Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 is the district for Emerson Elementary School. It has 9 schools and 4,081 students.
The student body at Emerson Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 50%. The next largest groups are 47% Hispanic. The school's Black share is 28 points above the 22% share among Cook County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
Emerson Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.5:1. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 57%. That is 9 points below the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Emerson Elementary School ranks in the bottom 10% in Illinois. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 22.0%, against a prediction of 38.4%.
Cook County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Emerson Elementary School shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Proviso East High School is about 0.3 miles from Emerson Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 22.0% average proficiency ranks 6th among 8 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Emerson Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 5% gain took enrollment from 346 in 2020-21 to 364 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Emerson Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89
- Stevenson Middle SchoolMiddle · 682 students
- Melrose Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
- Irving Middle SchoolMiddle · 515 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Jane Addams Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
Other schools in Maywood
- Proviso East High SchoolHigh · 1,663 students
- Irving Middle SchoolMiddle · 515 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Washington Dual Language AcademyElementary · 346 students
- ALOP Academic Learning ProgramHigh
Other Emerson Elementary schools
35 other US public schools in 18 states are named Emerson Elementary. Emerson Elementary School is the 16th largest of the 36.
- Emerson Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 429 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolWheaton, IL · 263 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolBerwyn, IL · 260 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 990 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 717 students
Nearby schools
- Proviso East High School0.3 mi · 1,663
- Washington Dual Language Academy0.5 mi · 346
- Garfield Elementary School0.7 mi · 411
- Lincoln Elementary School0.8 mi · 431
- Irving Middle School0.9 mi · 515
- Lincoln Elementary School1.0 mi · 381
Frequently asked questions
About Emerson Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School enrolls approximately 364 students in grades PK-05.
Is Emerson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Emerson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Emerson Elementary School have?
Emerson Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Emerson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Emerson Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 47% Hispanic, 50% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School is overseen by Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.