Emerson Elem School

As a medium-sized elementary school in Maywood, Illinois, Emerson Elem School teaches 364 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89.

Within Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89, which oversees 9 schools and 4,081 students, Emerson Elem School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Emerson Elem School logs that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 47% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 57% of students at Emerson Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Emerson Elem School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.4%; actual is 22.0%, a gap of -16.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Emerson Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Proviso East High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Emerson Elem School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Emerson Elem School's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 364). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 29% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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