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Enrollment
453
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BERWYN NORTH SD 98·NCES 170606000286
Jefferson Elementary School
7035 16th St, Berwyn, IL 60402 · (708) 795-2454 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL453 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
215 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 42 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Jefferson Elementary School→Lincoln Middle School
Based on grade levels within Berwyn North SD 98. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
51.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.1pp since 2023
Math
41.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +19.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.5% | 41.8% |
| 2023-24 | 35.4% | 22.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (41.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Elementary School this school | 453 | 47.5% | 41.9% |
| Jane Addams Elementary School Melrose Park | 385 | 46.2% | 47.4% |
| Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Chicago | 542 | 48.5% | 68.8% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Maywood | 431 | 55.7% | 37.4% |
| Schneider Elementary School North Aurora | 361 | 51.5% | 31.5% |
| Byrne Elementary School Chicago | 619 | 47.2% | 36.5% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #858 of 1,925 | #226 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #907 of 2,077 ▲ 193 | #268 of 829 ▲ 58 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.5% | #953 of 2,077 ▲ 7 | #303 of 829 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 453 | #735 of 2,419 | #342 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #730 of 2,035 | #347 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.7% | #1,283 of 2,042 | #473 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.5% | #1,370 of 2,132 | #626 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #344 of 1,461 | #214 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
453
-43 (-9%) vs 2020
+36% since 1990-91, when it was 334
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 453 | 36.2 | 12.5:1 | 47% (215) |
| 2023-24 | 466 | 35.2 | 13.2:1 | 54% (250) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 33.6 | 14.1:1 | 65% (309) |
| 2020-21 | 496 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 589 | 34.8 | 16.9:1 | 85% (498) |
| 2015-16 | 645 | 33 | 19.6:1 | 81% (523) |
| 2010-11 | 620 | 33 | 18.8:1 | 78% (485) |
| 2000-01 | 493 | 25 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 334 | 19 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (589 to 453); teachers up 4% (34.8 to 36.2).
About Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school found in Berwyn, Illinois. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 453 students.
Berwyn North SD 98 has 2,434 students spread across 4 schools.
About 80% of the student body at Jefferson Elementary School is Hispanic. Other groups include 12% Black and 6% White. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 27% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 35, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 12.5:1 is based on 36.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 47%. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Jefferson Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.9% and a predicted 44.1%.
The county, Cook County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
About 0.4 miles separate Jefferson Elementary School from the closest public school, Betsy Ross Elementary School. The five-mile area around Jefferson Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Jefferson Elementary School ranks 5th of 8 nearby schools, at 41.9% versus a 43.4% average.
NCES assigns Jefferson Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 9% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Berwyn North SD 98
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 793 students
- Prairie Oak SchoolElementary · 698 students
- Karel Havlicek Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
Other schools in Berwyn
- J Sterling Morton West High SchoolHigh · 3,374 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 793 students
- Prairie Oak SchoolElementary · 698 students
- Freedom Middle SchoolMiddle · 504 students
- Karel Havlicek Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 447 students
Other Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson Elementary School is the 42nd largest of the 144.
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolCharleston, IL · 698 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolSterling, IL · 450 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolMarion, IL · 376 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolMorton, IL · 354 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolDixon, IL · 344 students
Nearby schools
- Betsy Ross Elementary School0.4 mi · 138
- Prairie Oak School0.4 mi · 698
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary School0.8 mi · 580
- Lincoln Middle School0.8 mi · 793
- J Sterling Morton West High School0.8 mi · 3,374
- Karel Havlicek Elementary School0.9 mi · 490
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 453 students in grades PK-05.
Is Jefferson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jefferson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jefferson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jefferson Elementary School is approximately 12.5:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Jefferson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Jefferson Elementary School are roughly 6% White, 80% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Jefferson Elementary School in?
Jefferson Elementary School is part of Berwyn North SD 98.
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