Hodgkins Elem School

As an intimate elementary school in Hodgkins, Illinois, Hodgkins Elem School educates 165 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of La Grange SD 105 South. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Hodgkins Elem School sits 57% smaller than that benchmark.

La Grange SD 105 South comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,212 students; Hodgkins Elem School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hodgkins Elem School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 16% White, 5% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hodgkins Elem School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 26.0%; this one delivers 44.5%, a residual of +18.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Hodgkins Elem School is one.

Ideal Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hodgkins Elem School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hodgkins Elem School has shrank 20%, going from 205 students in 2018 to 165 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 25% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.