Hollywood Elem School

Hollywood Elem School operates as a very small elementary campus in Brookfield, Illinois, one of the schools within Riverside SD 96. Current enrollment sits at 114 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 70% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 5 schools in Riverside SD 96 (1,794 students total), Hollywood Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hollywood Elem School records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment; the rest consists of 20% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hollywood Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 70.9%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Hollywood Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Riverside Brookfield Twp HS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hollywood Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Hollywood Elem School's enrollment has declined 28% since 2018, when it stood at 159 (now 114). White enrollment moved from 82% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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