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What's something Longfellow Elem School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
524
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OAK PARK ESD 97·NCES 172925003064
Longfellow Elementary School
715 Highland Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304 · (708) 524-3060 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL524 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
100 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
73.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +20.7pp since 2023
Math
66.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +21.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 21 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 21 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.8% | 66.5% |
| 2023-24 | 53.1% | 45.3% |
% 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
64.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Longfellow Elementary School
Longfellow Elementary School's state test result (64.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Elementary School this school | 524 | 19.1% | 64.4% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Oak Park | 580 | 17.8% | 65.5% |
| Irving Elementary School Oak Park | 509 | 21.2% | 67.8% |
| Walnut Trails Elementary School Shorewood | 475 | 20.2% | 62.9% |
| Wolf Branch Elementary School Swansea | 482 | 21.8% | 71.5% |
| William Beye Elementary School Oak Park | 397 | 17.6% | 67.0% |
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 Longfellow Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #219 of 1,925 | #78 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #284 of 2,077 ▲ 135 | #99 of 829 ▲ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.8% | #253 of 2,077 ▲ 143 | #98 of 829 ▲ 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 524 | #451 of 2,419 | #225 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #141 of 2,035 | #83 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #259 of 2,042 | #106 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.1% | #1,972 of 2,132 | #748 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.3% | #227 of 1,461 | #145 of 661 |
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
524
-64 (-11%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 589
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 | 524 | 51.8 | 10.1:1 | 19% (100) |
| 2023-24 | 517 | 51.6 | 10.0:1 | 18% (93) |
| 2022-23 | 560 | 50.3 | 11.1:1 | 19% (107) |
| 2020-21 | 588 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 721 | 51.6 | 14.0:1 | 18% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 714 | 39 | 18.3:1 | 17% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 631 | 38 | 16.6:1 | 23% (142) |
| 2000-01 | 561 | 42 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 589 | 34 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longfellow Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (721 to 524); teachers unchanged (51.6 to 51.8).
About Longfellow Elementary School
Longfellow Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school for students in Oak Park, Illinois. The school has 524 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Longfellow Elementary School is in Oak Park ESD 97, a district with 5,560 students across 10 schools.
The student body at Longfellow Elementary School is 50% White. Other reported shares: 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 14% multiracial, and 2% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 67, compared with 70 nationally.
The school's 51.8 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Longfellow Elementary School, 19% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. It compares with 66% for public schools in Cook County.
On BeatsExpectations, Longfellow Elementary School is 3.9 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
In the wider Cook County area, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Longfellow Elementary School shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
About 0.4 miles separate Longfellow Elementary School from the closest public school, Percy Julian Middle School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 43.9%; Longfellow Elementary School's is 64.4%, ranking 3rd of 9.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 64 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Oak Park ESD 97
- Gwendolyn Brooks Middle SchoolMiddle · 947 students
- Percy Julian Middle SchoolMiddle · 927 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
- Oliver W Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
- Horace Mann Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
Other schools in Oak Park
- Oak Park & River Forest High SchoolHigh · 3,307 students
- Gwendolyn Brooks Middle SchoolMiddle · 947 students
- Percy Julian Middle SchoolMiddle · 927 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
- Oliver W Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
Other Longfellow Elementary schools
36 other US public schools in 18 states are named Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 37.
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolWheaton, IL · 318 students
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolRock Island, IL · 262 students
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolMarion, IL · 261 students
- Longfellow ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 904 students
- Longfellow ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 780 students
Nearby schools
- Percy Julian Middle School0.4 mi · 927
- Irving Elementary School0.6 mi · 509
- Clark G R Elementary School0.8 mi · 134
- Depriest Elementary School0.9 mi · 419
- Warren Park School0.9 mi · 695
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary School0.9 mi · 580
Frequently asked questions
About Longfellow Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Longfellow Elementary School?
Longfellow Elementary School enrolls approximately 524 students in grades PK-05.
Is Longfellow Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Longfellow Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Longfellow Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Longfellow Elementary School is approximately 10.1:1 (52 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Longfellow Elementary School?
Longfellow Elementary School reports a student body of 50% White, 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Longfellow Elementary School in?
Longfellow Elementary School is part of Oak Park ESD 97.
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