Enrollment
363
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLWOOD SD 88·NCES 170576000247
Grant Elementary School
1300 N 34th Ave, Melrose Park, IL 60160 · (708) 410-3400 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL363 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
361 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Grant Elementary School→Roosevelt Middle School
Based on grade levels within Bellwood SD 88. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
30.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.5pp since 2023
Math
21.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.9% | 21.2% |
| 2023-24 | 16.4% | 15.3% |
% 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
24.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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 Grant Elementary School
Grant Elementary School's state test result (24.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Elementary School this school | 363 | 99.4% | 24.1% |
| Seward Elementary Communication Arts Ac Chicago | 390 | 97.4% | 17.0% |
| Kanoon Elementary Magnet School Chicago | 389 | 93.8% | 16.1% |
| Funston Elementary School Chicago | 440 | 97.3% | 16.2% |
| Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center Chicago | 351 | 93.7% | 20.7% |
| Shields Elementary School Chicago | 439 | 93.8% | 21.9% |
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 Grant Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #1,472 of 1,925 | #488 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.2% | #1,563 of 2,077 ▼ 174 | #517 of 829 ▼ 70 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #1,640 of 2,077 ▲ 50 | #596 of 829 ▲ 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 363 | #1,188 of 2,419 | #493 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #731 of 2,035 | #348 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.6% | #1,877 of 2,042 | #718 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #29 of 2,132 | #19 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #765 of 1,461 | #402 of 661 |
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
363
+22 (+6%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 495
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 | 363 | 29 | 12.5:1 | 99% (361) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 27 | 11.4:1 | 99% (307) |
| 2022-23 | 301 | 26 | 11.6:1 | 98% (296) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 417 | 30.1 | 13.9:1 | 99% (414) |
| 2015-16 | 466 | 23 | 20.3:1 | 32% (147) |
| 2010-11 | 607 | 28 | 21.7:1 | 67% (404) |
| 2000-01 | 673 | 36 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 495 | 26 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grant Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (417 to 363); teachers down 3% (30.1 to 29).
About Grant Elementary School
This page covers Grant Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school in Melrose Park, Illinois. Its enrollment is 363 students, spread over kindergarten through 5.
Grant Elementary School sits within Bellwood SD 88, which has 6 schools and 1,998 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Grant Elementary School is Hispanic, at 94%. The school is also 3% Black and 2% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Grant Elementary School scores 11%.
The school has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.5 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1, 1.4 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at Grant Elementary School, 99% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Grant Elementary School's results are 10.0 points above predicted: 24.1% against 14.1%.
In the surrounding county, Cook County, median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
Grant Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is McKinley Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. The five-mile area around Grant Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Grant Elementary School at 4th of 7.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment increased 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Grant Elementary School. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellwood SD 88
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 614 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 310 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 304 students
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
- Early Childhood CenterElementary · 178 students
- Grant PrimaryElementary
Other schools in Melrose Park
- Mannheim Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Stevenson Middle SchoolMiddle · 682 students
- Melrose Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
- Jane Addams Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
- Scott Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
Other Grant Elementary schools
34 other US public schools in 13 states are named Grant Elementary. Grant Elementary School is the 17th largest of the 35.
- Grant ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 951 students
- Grant ElementaryRedding, CA · 600 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolSOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ · 568 students
- Grant ElementarySanta Monica, CA · 562 students
- Grant ElementaryMarshfield, WI · 554 students
Nearby schools
- McKinley Elementary School0.9 mi · 304
- Stevenson Middle School0.9 mi · 682
- Jefferson Primary School1.0 mi · 380
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary School1.0 mi · 229
- Roosevelt Middle School1.1 mi · 614
- Melrose Park Elementary School1.1 mi · 602
Frequently asked questions
About Grant Elementary SchoolHow large is Grant Elementary School?
Grant Elementary School enrolls approximately 363 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Grant Elementary School serve?
Grant Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Grant Elementary School have?
Grant Elementary School employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Grant Elementary School?
Student demographics at Grant Elementary School are roughly 0% White, 94% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Grant Elementary School in?
Grant Elementary School is part of Bellwood SD 88.
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