Melzer School

Melzer School is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Morton Grove, Illinois, operated by East Maine SD 63, with 395 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

East Maine SD 63 comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,706 students; Melzer School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Melzer School logs that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 30% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Melzer School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Melzer School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 52.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Melzer School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Elem School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Melzer School. On composite proficiency, Melzer School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share grew from 35% to 44%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Melzer School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.