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Glen Flora Elem School
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)BeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Glen Flora Elem School
Glen Flora Elem School is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in Waukegan, Illinois, operated by Waukegan CUSD 60, with 476 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 381.
Glen Flora Elem School is one of 22 schools operated by Waukegan CUSD 60, a district that hosts 13,640 students overall.
Demographically, Glen Flora Elem School shows that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 13% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Glen Flora Elem School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Glen Flora Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.1%; this one delivers 17.6%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lake County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Glen Flora Elem School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: LEARN John Kathy Schreiber Chrtr, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glen Flora Elem School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 494 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.
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