Fieldcrest Elem School

Fieldcrest Elem School is an elementary campus of compact scale in Oak Forest, Illinois, operated by Prairie-Hills ESD 144, enrolling 217 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Fieldcrest Elem School sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Prairie-Hills ESD 144 (2,473 students total), Fieldcrest Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fieldcrest Elem School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 40% Black, 9% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Fieldcrest Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at Fieldcrest Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fieldcrest Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.7%; this one delivers 27.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Fieldcrest Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Markham Park Elem School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fieldcrest Elem School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

Fieldcrest Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Fieldcrest Elem School's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 260 (now 217). White enrollment moved from 18% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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