Hickory Bend Elem School

Located at 600 E 191st Pl, in Glenwood, Illinois, Hickory Bend Elem School is a compact elementary campus that educates 277 students (grades K through 4), overseen by Brookwood SD 167. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 4 schools in Brookwood SD 167 (1,098 students total), Hickory Bend Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Hickory Bend Elem School records that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Hickory Bend Elem School shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hickory Bend Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 24.0%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Around the school, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Hickory Bend Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Brookwood Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hickory Bend Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 269 students in 2018 compared to 277 in 2025.

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