Lyon Magnet Elementary School

Lyon Magnet Elementary School is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Waukegan, Illinois, part of Waukegan CUSD 60, enrolling 430 students in grades K through 5.

Lyon Magnet Elementary School is one of 22 schools operated by Waukegan CUSD 60, a district that hosts 13,640 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Lyon Magnet Elementary School logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 12% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Lyon Magnet Elementary School records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lake County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lyon Magnet Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lyon Magnet Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students).

Nearest neighbor: John R Lewis Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lyon Magnet Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 19.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 495 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 16% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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