Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr

Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Ford Heights, Illinois, one of the schools within Ford Heights SD 169. Current enrollment sits at 306 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Ford Heights SD 169 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 462 students. Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr shows that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.2%; this one delivers 11.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 25.1%.

Medgar Evers Primary Acadmc Cntr operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 14%: 269 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 today.

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