Karel Havlicek Elem School

Set in Berwyn, Illinois, Karel Havlicek Elem School is a reasonably sized elementary school, run under Berwyn North SD 98. It hosts 490 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 29% larger than typical.

Berwyn North SD 98 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,434 students; Karel Havlicek Elem School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Karel Havlicek Elem School lists that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 8% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Karel Havlicek Elem School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Karel Havlicek Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cook County put 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%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Karel Havlicek Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Karel Havlicek Elem School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025.

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