Enrollment
263
Elementary
DISTRICT 392 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JOLIET PSD 86·NCES 172058002332
Forest Park Individual Ed School
1220 California Ave, Joliet, IL 60432 · (815) 723-0414 · Will County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL263 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Illinois public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
263 students
DISTRICT 96% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
58.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.7pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +18.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.3% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.6% | 23.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+33.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 14% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 34 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Forest Park Individual Ed School
Forest Park Individual Ed School's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Park Individual Ed School this school | 263 | 100.0% | 47.4% |
| A O Marshall Elementary School Joliet | 246 | 95.1% | 19.2% |
| Garfield Elementary School Chicago Heights | 248 | 98.4% | 29.3% |
| Hammond Elementary School Chicago | 259 | 94.2% | 20.7% |
| Isaac Singleton Elementary School Joliet | 304 | 95.1% | 18.9% |
| Christopher Elementary School Chicago | 315 | 95.9% | 17.0% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Forest Park Individual Ed School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #668 of 1,925 | #54 of 94 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #903 of 2,077 ▲ 150 | #65 of 100 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #738 of 2,077 ▲ 16 | #53 of 100 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 263 | #1,753 of 2,419 | #100 of 116 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #1,931 of 2,035 | #98 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.9% | #1,332 of 2,042 | #94 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #13 of 2,132 | #2 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.9% | #291 of 1,461 | #12 of 71 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
263
-32 (-11%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 308
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 263 | 14.5 | 18.1:1 | 100% (263) |
| 2023-24 | 267 | 17.3 | 15.5:1 | 100% (266) |
| 2022-23 | 298 | 15.7 | 19.0:1 | 98% (292) |
| 2020-21 | 295 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 350 | 16.4 | 21.3:1 | 100% (349) |
| 2015-16 | 369 | 17 | 21.7:1 | 88% (326) |
| 2010-11 | 312 | 13 | 24.0:1 | 71% (223) |
| 2000-01 | 312 | 15 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 308 | 13 | 23.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Park Individual Ed School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (350 to 263); teachers down 12% (16.4 to 14.5).
About Forest Park Individual Ed School
Forest Park Individual Ed School is an elementary school with a street address in Joliet, Illinois. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 263 students. The average among elementary schools in Illinois is roughly 381 students; this school is 31% smaller than that.
Joliet PSD 86 runs 20 schools with a combined 9,333 students. Forest Park Individual Ed School is one of them.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Forest Park Individual Ed School, with 81% of enrollment. Next come 9% Black and 8% White. That compares with about 20% Hispanic among all Will County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Forest Park Individual Ed School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 33%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 18.1:1, with 14.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, lower than at this school. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 100% of enrollment. It compares with 44% for public schools in Will County.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, Forest Park Individual Ed School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Forest Park Individual Ed School is a top-10% school in Illinois on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests of 13.8% with an actual 47.4%.
County data help place the school in context: in Will County, median household income is about $109,984, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Forest Park Individual Ed School is among the 209 public schools in Will County.
Sator Sanchez Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line. Forest Park Individual Ed School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 22.1%, lower than Forest Park Individual Ed School's 47.4%.
Forest Park Individual Ed School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 295 to 263.
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Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Joliet PSD 86
- Hufford Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,072 students
- Washington Jr High & Academy PrgmMiddle · 724 students
- Dirksen Junior High SchoolMiddle · 653 students
- Sator Sanchez Elementary SchoolElementary · 635 students
- Pershing Elementary SchoolElementary · 621 students
- Lynne Thigpen Elementary SchoolElementary · 620 students
Other schools in Joliet
- Joliet West High SchoolHigh · 3,451 students
- Joliet Central High SchoolHigh · 3,295 students
- Hufford Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,072 students
- Aux Sable Middle SchoolMiddle · 844 students
- Washington Jr High & Academy PrgmMiddle · 724 students
- Dirksen Junior High SchoolMiddle · 653 students
Nearby schools
- Sator Sanchez Elementary School0.8 mi · 635
- Isaac Singleton Elementary School0.8 mi · 304
- Gompers Junior High School0.9 mi · 615
- Fairmont School1.2 mi · 300
- A O Marshall Elementary School1.3 mi · 246
- Joliet Central High School1.8 mi · 3,295
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Park Individual Ed SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Forest Park Individual Ed School?
Forest Park Individual Ed School enrolls approximately 263 students in grades KG-05.
Is Forest Park Individual Ed School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Forest Park Individual Ed School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Forest Park Individual Ed School have?
Forest Park Individual Ed School employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Forest Park Individual Ed School?
At Forest Park Individual Ed School, the student body is approximately 8% White, 81% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is Forest Park Individual Ed School public or private?
Forest Park Individual Ed School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Joliet PSD 86.
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