Eugene Field Elem School

Set in Wheeling, Illinois, Eugene Field Elem School is a heavily attended elementary-level community, overseen by Wheeling CCSD 21. It educates 613 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Eugene Field Elem School sits 61% larger than that benchmark.

Within Wheeling CCSD 21, which oversees 12 schools and 6,298 students, Eugene Field Elem School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eugene Field Elem School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%; the rest looks like 18% White, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Eugene Field Elem School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Eugene Field Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eugene Field Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.2%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Eugene Field Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Jack London Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eugene Field Elem School. On composite proficiency, Eugene Field Elem School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eugene Field Elem School has ticked up 8%, going from 568 students in 2018 to 613 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 83% to 72% over that span.

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