Meadowbrook Elem School

Meadowbrook Elem School is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Northbrook, Illinois, part of Northbrook SD 28, instructing 497 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Meadowbrook Elem School sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Northbrook SD 28, which oversees 4 schools and 1,828 students, Meadowbrook Elem School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Meadowbrook Elem School reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Meadowbrook Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Northbrook Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meadowbrook Elem School.

Meadowbrook Elem School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Meadowbrook Elem School's enrollment has rose 23% since 2018, when it stood at 403 (now 497).

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