Kolmar Elem School

Set in Midlothian, Illinois, Kolmar Elem School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, operated by Midlothian SD 143. It hosts 535 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Within Midlothian SD 143, which oversees 4 schools and 1,620 students, Kolmar Elem School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Kolmar Elem School shows that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 21% White, 19% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Kolmar Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Kolmar Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 24.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Kolmar Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Springfield Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kolmar Elem School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kolmar Elem School has contracted 12%, going from 608 students in 2018 to 535 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 36% to 52%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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