Garfield Elem School

Garfield Elem School is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Maywood, Illinois, part of Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89, teacheing 411 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89, which oversees 9 schools and 4,081 students, Garfield Elem School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Garfield Elem School logs that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 46% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Garfield Elem School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Garfield Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.5%; this one delivers 23.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Garfield Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Roosevelt Elem School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garfield Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garfield Elem School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 437 students in 2018 compared to 411 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 29% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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