Ideal Elem School

Set in Countryside, Illinois, Ideal Elem School is a modestly sized elementary-level community, part of La Grange SD 105 South. It hosts 258 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 32% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Ideal Elem School is one of 5 schools operated by La Grange SD 105 South, a district that instructs 1,212 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Ideal Elem School logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 26% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Ideal Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ideal Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Ideal Elem School is one.

Wm F Gurrie Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ideal Elem School. On composite proficiency, Ideal Elem School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 272 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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