Kolmar Avenue Elem School

As a medium-sized primary school in Oak Lawn, Illinois, Kolmar Avenue Elem School serves 391 students from grades K through 5, operated by Oak Lawn-Hometown SD 123.

Across the 7 schools in Oak Lawn-Hometown SD 123 (3,395 students total), Kolmar Avenue Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Kolmar Avenue Elem School lists that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at Kolmar Avenue Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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), Kolmar Avenue Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Kolmar Avenue Elem School is one.

Lawn Manor School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kolmar Avenue Elem School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 47.2%.

Kolmar Avenue Elem School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kolmar Avenue Elem School has ticked down 12%, going from 442 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 31% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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