Lester Crawl Primary Center

Lester Crawl Primary Center, a small elementary school, is located in Lansing, Illinois. Enrolled students number 135 students, in pre-K through 1. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students each.

Within Lansing SD 158, Lester Crawl Primary Center is one of 5 schools. The district enrolls 2,547 students.

Black students make up a majority at Lester Crawl Primary Center, at 62%. Smaller groups are 28% Hispanic, 5% White, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Cook County is roughly 22% Black. The school's diversity index is 53%, meaning two students picked at random have a 53% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The teaching staff at Lester Crawl Primary Center is 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.5:1. That is close to the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 3%. That rate is below the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.

Cook County has about 5,182,090 residents, and the median household income is $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Lester Crawl Primary Center, Cook County has 1,405 other public schools.

Nearest public school: Thornton Fractnl So High School, about 0.3 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The federal government classifies Lester Crawl Primary Center's location as Suburb: Large.

The 2020-21 count was 80 students and the 2024-25 count was 135. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves.

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