Kingsley Elementary School

Located at 2300 Green Bay Rd, in Evanston, Illinois, Kingsley Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school that caters to 334 students (grades K through 5), run under Evanston CCSD 65.

Kingsley Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Evanston CCSD 65, a district that caters to 6,136 students overall.

Demographically, Kingsley Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 27% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Kingsley Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 31% 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 meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kingsley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 57.2%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Kingsley Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Haven Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kingsley Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kingsley Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 63.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kingsley Elementary School has fell 14%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 334 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 22% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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