Euclid Elem School

Euclid Elem School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Mount Prospect, Illinois, part of River Trails SD 26. The school hosts 344 students in grades 1 through 5.

Within River Trails SD 26, which oversees 4 schools and 1,462 students, Euclid Elem School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Euclid Elem School logs that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 21% Asian, 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Euclid Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Euclid Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that 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%. Euclid Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

River Trails Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Euclid Elem School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

Euclid Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Euclid Elem School's enrollment has contracted 25% since 2018, when it stood at 461 (now 344). The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 36% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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