Farragut Elem School

As a moderately sized elementary school in Joliet, Illinois, Farragut Elem School works with 568 students from grades K through 5, run under Joliet PSD 86. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Farragut Elem School sits 49% above that benchmark.

Joliet PSD 86 comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 9,333 students; Farragut Elem School is among them.

On demographics, Farragut Elem School logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 31% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, Farragut Elem School records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Will County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, Farragut Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.1%, the actual is 15.9%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Will County put median household income runs about $109,984, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Farragut Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: M J Cunningham Elem Sch, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Farragut Elem School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.9%.

Farragut Elem School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Farragut Elem School's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 682 (now 568). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 42% to 60%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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