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Enrollment
577
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAUKEGAN CUSD 60·NCES 174125004127
Glenwood Elementary School
2500 Northmoor Ave, Waukegan, IL 60085 · (224) 303-2010 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL577 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
414 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
22.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.1pp since 2023
Math
26.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +13.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.7% | 26.2% |
| 2023-24 | 14.6% | 13.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Glenwood Elementary School
Glenwood Elementary School's state test result (21.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Elementary School this school | 577 | 71.8% | 21.4% |
| Prairie Oak School Berwyn | 698 | 72.1% | 39.8% |
| Century Oaks Elementary School Elgin | 542 | 74.0% | 24.5% |
| Lords Park Elementary School Elgin | 655 | 71.3% | 23.1% |
| Glen Flora Elementary School Waukegan | 476 | 75.2% | 17.6% |
| Edna Rollins Elementary School Aurora | 508 | 69.5% | 14.8% |
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 Glenwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.4% | #1,563 of 1,925 | #54 of 69 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #1,414 of 2,077 ▲ 73 | #79 of 102 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.7% | #1,867 of 2,077 ▼ 88 | #89 of 102 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 577 | #316 of 2,419 | #14 of 121 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,042 of 2,035 | #80 of 114 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.4% | #1,270 of 2,042 | #86 of 114 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.8% | #700 of 2,132 | #24 of 82 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.6% | #362 of 1,461 | #18 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
577
-61 (-10%) vs 2020
+36% since 1990-91, when it was 425
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 | 577 | 43 | 13.4:1 | 72% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 588 | 38 | 15.5:1 | 74% (437) |
| 2022-23 | 641 | 40.3 | 15.9:1 | 68% (435) |
| 2020-21 | 638 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 745 | 39 | 19.1:1 | 77% (575) |
| 2015-16 | 747 | 37 | 20.2:1 | 61% (455) |
| 2010-11 | 708 | 37 | 19.1:1 | 70% (495) |
| 2000-01 | 697 | 33 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 425 | 21 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glenwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (745 to 577); teachers up 10% (39 to 43).
About Glenwood Elementary School
Glenwood Elementary School is a large elementary school for students in Waukegan, Illinois. The school has 577 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 51% bigger than average.
A total of 22 schools make up Waukegan CUSD 60, with 13,640 students enrolled.
The share of Hispanic students at Glenwood Elementary School is 79%, a majority. The remaining students are 13% Black, 3% White, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Lake County is about 25% Hispanic. A diversity index of 35% means there is a 35% chance two randomly chosen students at Glenwood Elementary School are from different groups.
Teacher count: 43 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.4:1. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 72% at Glenwood Elementary School. That is 18 points above the 54% average for public schools in Lake County.
Glenwood Elementary School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Glenwood Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 21.4%, compared with a predicted 30.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Lake County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $110,416 a year, about 48% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 214 public schools in the county, enrolling about 118,032, Glenwood Elementary School among them.
Of the public schools around it, Glenwood Elementary School is closest to Whittier Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Glenwood Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 21.7% on proficiency, and Glenwood Elementary School is below that at 21.4%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 10%, from 638 to 577.
People who know Glenwood Elementary School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
714,223
Census ACS
Median income
$110,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
118,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Waukegan CUSD 60
- Waukegan High SchoolHigh · 4,186 students
- John R Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Miguel Juarez Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Robert E Abbott Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Carman-Buckner Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
- Oakdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 505 students
Other schools in Waukegan
- Waukegan High SchoolHigh · 4,186 students
- John R Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Miguel Juarez Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Robert E Abbott Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- LEARN John Kathy Schreiber ChrtrElementary · 519 students
- Carman-Buckner Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
Other Glenwood Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 16 states are named Glenwood Elementary. Glenwood Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 23.
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolChatham, IL · 573 students
- Glenwood ElementaryVirginia Beach, VA · 896 students
- Glenwood ElementaryLake Stevens, WA · 641 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolMedia, PA · 586 students
- Glenwood ElementaryGRAND RAPIDS, MI · 543 students
Nearby schools
- Whittier Elementary School0.5 mi · 438
- Clearview Elementary School0.5 mi · 404
- Early Learning Center0.6 mi · 221
- Edith M Smith Middle School0.7 mi · 493
- LEARN John Kathy Schreiber Chrtr0.9 mi · 519
- Hyde Park Elementary School1.0 mi · 295
Frequently asked questions
About Glenwood Elementary SchoolHow large is Glenwood Elementary School?
Glenwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 577 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Glenwood Elementary School serve?
Glenwood Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Glenwood Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Glenwood Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Glenwood Elementary School?
At Glenwood Elementary School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 79% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Glenwood Elementary School public or private?
Glenwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Waukegan CUSD 60.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.