Jane Addams Elem School

Located at 910 Division St, in Melrose Park, Illinois, Jane Addams Elem School is an average-sized K-5 school that hosts 385 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89.

Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,081 students. Jane Addams Elem School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jane Addams Elem School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder reads as 6% Black, 5% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Jane Addams Elem School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Jane Addams Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Jane Addams Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.8%; this one delivers 47.4%.

In the broader community, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Jane Addams Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Lincoln Elem School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jane Addams Elem School. On composite proficiency, Jane Addams Elem School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jane Addams Elem School has fell 10%, going from 426 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 75% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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