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Enrollment
602
Elementary
DISTRICT 412 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MAYWOOD-MELROSE PARK-BROADVIEW 89·NCES 172511002743
Melrose Park Elementary School
1715 W Lake St, Melrose Park, IL 60160 · (708) 450-2042 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL602 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
328 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 63 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Melrose Park Elementary School→Stevenson Middle School
Based on grade levels within Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
41.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.2pp since 2023
Math
26.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +16.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.2% | 26.2% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 9.9% |
% 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
31.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Melrose Park Elementary School
Melrose Park Elementary School's state test result (31.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melrose Park Elementary School this school | 602 | 54.5% | 31.9% |
| Cicero West Elementary School Cicero | 557 | 57.1% | 26.8% |
| Academy for Global Citizenship Chicago | 486 | 57.6% | 23.1% |
| Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Chicago | 542 | 48.5% | 68.8% |
| Roy Elementary School Northlake | 545 | 59.4% | 35.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Maywood | 431 | 55.7% | 37.4% |
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 Melrose Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #1,204 of 1,925 | #367 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #1,411 of 2,077 ▲ 204 | #442 of 829 ▲ 116 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #1,307 of 2,077 ▼ 207 | #443 of 829 ▼ 84 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 602 | #272 of 2,419 | #155 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,339 of 2,035 | #601 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.4% | #1,925 of 2,042 | #744 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.5% | #1,177 of 2,132 | #580 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.3% | #340 of 1,461 | #212 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
602
-34 (-5%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 649
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 | 602 | 42 | 14.3:1 | 54% (328) |
| 2023-24 | 634 | 42.5 | 14.9:1 | 56% (355) |
| 2022-23 | 629 | 42.5 | 14.8:1 | 40% (250) |
| 2020-21 | 636 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 785 | 48.5 | 16.2:1 | 46% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 914 | 46 | 19.9:1 | 77% (703) |
| 2010-11 | 935 | 42 | 22.3:1 | 72% (670) |
| 2000-01 | 932 | 42 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 649 | 34 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Melrose Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (785 to 602); teachers down 13% (48.5 to 42).
About Melrose Park Elementary School
Melrose Park Elementary School operates as a large elementary school in Melrose Park, Illinois. The school has 602 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
The Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 system has 9 schools and 4,081 students.
Hispanic students are 96% of those enrolled at Melrose Park Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 3% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Cook County's population at about 27%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 8%.
The school's 42 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Illinois is similar, at 13.9:1. Income data for the school show 54% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
Melrose Park Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.9% is 8.1 points below the 40.0% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Cook County area, median household income comes to about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Across Cook County, 1,406 public schools serve about 697,934 students.
Melrose Park Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Lincoln Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Melrose Park Elementary School is ahead of the 30.6% nearby average, ranking 5th of 9.
Melrose Park Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 602 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 636.
On allk12, people connected to Melrose Park Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89
- Stevenson Middle SchoolMiddle · 682 students
- Irving Middle SchoolMiddle · 515 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Jane Addams Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
Other schools in Melrose Park
- Mannheim Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Stevenson Middle SchoolMiddle · 682 students
- Jane Addams Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
- Scott Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 363 students
Other Melrose Park Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Melrose Park Elementary. Melrose Park Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- MELROSE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE CITY, FL · 635 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.6 mi · 431
- Jane Addams Elementary School0.7 mi · 385
- Stevenson Middle School0.7 mi · 682
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary School0.7 mi · 229
- Roosevelt Middle School0.8 mi · 614
- Washington Dual Language Academy0.9 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About Melrose Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Melrose Park Elementary School?
Melrose Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 602 students in grades PK-05.
Is Melrose Park Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Melrose Park Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Melrose Park Elementary School?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Melrose Park Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Melrose Park Elementary School?
Student demographics at Melrose Park Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Melrose Park Elementary School public or private?
Melrose Park Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.