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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAUKEGAN CUSD 60·NCES 174125004134
Little Fort Elementary School
1775 Blanchard Rd, Waukegan, IL 60087 · (224) 303-3700 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 52% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C+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
13.6:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
296 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
40.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.4pp since 2023
Math
39.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 40 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.1% | 39.3% |
| 2023-24 | 25.7% | 28.3% |
% 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
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Little Fort Elementary School
Little Fort Elementary School's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Fort Elementary School this school | 421 | 70.3% | 37.0% |
| Clearview Elementary School Waukegan | 404 | 69.1% | 10.5% |
| CICS - Irving Park Campus Chicago | 453 | 68.0% | 38.9% |
| Washington Elementary School Elgin | 446 | 72.2% | 27.9% |
| Erie Elementary Charter School Chicago | 405 | 73.1% | 13.7% |
| Moos Elementary School Chicago | 434 | 66.8% | 22.0% |
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 Little Fort Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,014 of 1,925 | #38 of 69 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #985 of 2,077 ▼ 109 | #61 of 102 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #1,341 of 2,077 ▲ 6 | #71 of 102 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #905 of 2,419 | #64 of 121 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #1,096 of 2,035 | #82 of 114 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.1% | #1,175 of 2,042 | #81 of 114 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.3% | #737 of 2,132 | #25 of 82 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #764 of 1,461 | #31 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
421
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 621
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 | 421 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 70% (296) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 36 | 11.4:1 | 75% (310) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 30.8 | 13.6:1 | 62% (262) |
| 2020-21 | 420 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 484 | 31 | 15.6:1 | 66% (319) |
| 2015-16 | 569 | 34 | 16.7:1 | 57% (326) |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 33 | 16.6:1 | 72% (392) |
| 2000-01 | 697 | 31 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 621 | 25 | 24.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Little Fort Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (484 to 421); teachers unchanged (31 to 31).
About Little Fort Elementary School
Families in Waukegan, Illinois, are served by Little Fort Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 421 students.
The district, Waukegan CUSD 60, has 13,640 students enrolled across 22 schools.
About 76% of the student body at Little Fort Elementary School is Hispanic. The remaining students are 15% Black and 4% Asian. Among people living in Lake County, the Hispanic share is about 25%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 39, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 31 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 13.6:1. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Little Fort Elementary School is about 70%. Compared with the 54% average for public schools in Lake County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Little Fort Elementary School outscored 52%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Little Fort Elementary School is 6.1 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 37.0% actual, 30.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
The school's county is Lake County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $110,416, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lake County's 214 public schools enroll about 118,032 students and include Little Fort Elementary School.
Jack Benny Middle School, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Little Fort Elementary School. Little Fort Elementary School places 3rd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The school's size has been steady, with 420 students in 2020-21 and 421 in 2024-25.
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Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
714,223
Census ACS
Median income
$110,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
118,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Waukegan CUSD 60
- Waukegan High SchoolHigh · 4,186 students
- John R Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Miguel Juarez Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Robert E Abbott Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 577 students
- Carman-Buckner Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
Other schools in Waukegan
- Waukegan High SchoolHigh · 4,186 students
- John R Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Miguel Juarez Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Robert E Abbott Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 577 students
- LEARN John Kathy Schreiber ChrtrElementary · 519 students
Nearby schools
- Jack Benny Middle School0.3 mi · 475
- John S Clark Elementary School0.7 mi · 262
- Oakdale Elementary School0.9 mi · 505
- H R McCall Elementary School1.0 mi · 396
- Clearview Elementary School1.1 mi · 404
- Early Learning Center1.1 mi · 221
Frequently asked questions
About Little Fort Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Little Fort Elementary School?
Little Fort Elementary School enrolls approximately 421 students in grades KG-05.
Is Little Fort Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Little Fort Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Little Fort Elementary School?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at Little Fort Elementary School.
How diverse is Little Fort Elementary School?
Little Fort Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 76% Hispanic, 15% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Little Fort Elementary School?
Little Fort Elementary School is overseen by Waukegan CUSD 60 in Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.