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Which teacher or staff member at Lakewood Falls Elem School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
543
Elementary
DISTRICT 563 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAINFIELD SD 202·NCES 173174002209
Lakewood Falls Elementary School
14050 S Budler Rd, Plainfield, IL 60544 · (815) 439-4560 · Will County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL543 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
278 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 114 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
54.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +19.8pp since 2023
Math
38.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.9% | 38.5% |
| 2023-24 | 35.1% | 22.5% |
% 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
42.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 Lakewood Falls Elementary School
Lakewood Falls Elementary School's state test result (42.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakewood Falls Elementary School this school | 543 | 51.2% | 42.7% |
| Skoff Elementary Romeoville | 542 | 52.2% | 49.2% |
| Creekside Elementary School Plainfield | 472 | 47.0% | 45.6% |
| Troy Heritage Trail School Joliet | 480 | 49.6% | 43.5% |
| Troy Craughwell School Joliet | 526 | 54.4% | 47.9% |
| Troy Cronin Elementary School Shorewood | 466 | 45.5% | 50.0% |
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 Lakewood Falls Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #834 of 1,925 | #62 of 94 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #1,011 of 2,077 ▲ 72 | #69 of 100 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #844 of 2,077 ▲ 133 | #62 of 100 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 543 | #393 of 2,419 | #33 of 116 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #916 of 2,035 | #42 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #99 of 2,042 | #8 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.2% | #1,275 of 2,132 | #39 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.5% | #592 of 1,461 | #27 of 71 |
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
543
-84 (-13%) vs 2020
-53% since 2000-01, when it was 1,146
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 | 543 | 41.5 | 13.1:1 | 51% (278) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 39.4 | 13.7:1 | 52% (280) |
| 2022-23 | 526 | 38 | 13.8:1 | 53% (277) |
| 2020-21 | 627 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 41.3 | 15.8:1 | 49% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 732 | 41 | 17.9:1 | 39% (285) |
| 2010-11 | 878 | 43 | 20.4:1 | 21% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 1,146 | 48 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lakewood Falls Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (650 to 543); teachers up 1% (41.3 to 41.5).
About Lakewood Falls Elementary School
Lakewood Falls Elementary School is one of the public schools in Plainfield, Illinois. It is a mid-sized elementary school. Federal data show 543 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Plainfield SD 202 runs 30 schools with a combined 24,556 students. Lakewood Falls Elementary School is one of them.
The largest group at Lakewood Falls Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 38%. Other students are 30% White, 21% Black, 5% Asian, and 5% multiracial. That is higher than the 20% Hispanic share among all Will County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 72%.
Lakewood Falls Elementary School has 41.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 51% at Lakewood Falls Elementary School.
Lakewood Falls Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 48% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Lakewood Falls Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 42.7%, compared with a predicted 42.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Will County area, the median household earns about $109,984 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Lakewood Falls Elementary School shares Will County with 208 other public schools.
Lakewood Falls Elementary School is about 0.2 miles from Creekside Elementary School, its nearest public school. Lakewood Falls Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 51.0% on proficiency, and Lakewood Falls Elementary School is below that at 42.7%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 13%, from 627 to 543.
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Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plainfield SD 202
- Plainfield North High SchoolHigh · 2,399 students
- Plainfield South High SchoolHigh · 2,323 students
- Plainfield East High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,800 students
- John F Kennedy Middle SchoolMiddle · 912 students
- Timber Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
Other schools in Plainfield
- Plainfield North High SchoolHigh · 2,399 students
- Plainfield South High SchoolHigh · 2,323 students
- Plainfield East High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,800 students
- John F Kennedy Middle SchoolMiddle · 912 students
- Timber Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
Nearby schools
- Creekside Elementary School0.2 mi · 472
- Kenneth L Hermansen Elementary1.3 mi · 431
- Liberty Elementary School1.5 mi · 522
- Elizabeth Eichelberger Elementary School2.0 mi · 548
- John F Kennedy Middle School2.1 mi · 912
- Indian Trail Middle School2.2 mi · 520
Frequently asked questions
About Lakewood Falls Elementary SchoolHow large is Lakewood Falls Elementary School?
Lakewood Falls Elementary School enrolls approximately 543 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Lakewood Falls Elementary School serve?
Lakewood Falls Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lakewood Falls Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lakewood Falls Elementary School is approximately 13.1:1 (42 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lakewood Falls Elementary School?
Lakewood Falls Elementary School reports a student body of 30% White, 38% Hispanic, 21% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Lakewood Falls Elementary School?
Lakewood Falls Elementary School is overseen by Plainfield SD 202 in Will County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.