Home Elem School

Located at 4400 Home Ave, in Stickney, Illinois, Home Elem School is a compact elementary-level community that works with 256 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Lyons SD 103. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Home Elem School sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

Home Elem School is one of 6 schools operated by Lyons SD 103, a district that hosts 2,042 students overall.

On demographics, Home Elem School lists that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, Home Elem School records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Home Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 39.6%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows 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%. Home Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Edison Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Home Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Home Elem School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 289 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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