Field Stevenson Elem School

Field Stevenson Elem School is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Forest Park, Illinois, part of Forest Park SD 91, with 214 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Field Stevenson Elem School sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Forest Park SD 91, which oversees 4 schools and 724 students, Field Stevenson Elem School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Field Stevenson Elem School records that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 22% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Field Stevenson Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Field Stevenson Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -3.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate 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%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Field Stevenson Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Forest Park Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Field Stevenson Elem School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Field Stevenson Elem School's enrollment has increased 48% since 2018, when it stood at 145 (now 214). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 19% to 29%. Class-load math has rose: from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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