Greenwood Elem School

As a tight-knit primary school in Waukegan, Illinois, Greenwood Elem School educates 318 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Waukegan CUSD 60.

Waukegan CUSD 60 comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 13,640 students; Greenwood Elem School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Greenwood Elem School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%; the rest comes out to 14% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Greenwood Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.2%.

In the surrounding community, Lake County reports that median household income runs about $110,416, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Greenwood Elem School is one of 214 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students).

Nearest neighbor: LEARN John Kathy Schreiber Chrtr, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greenwood Elem School. On composite proficiency, Greenwood Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 326 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025.

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