Memorial Elem School

Memorial Elem School operates as a tight-knit elementary-level community in Tinley Park, Illinois, run under CCSD 146. Current enrollment sits at 291 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 24% below typical.

Memorial Elem School is one of 5 schools operated by CCSD 146, a district that caters to 2,325 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Memorial Elem School records that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 12% Black, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Memorial Elem School reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Memorial Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Memorial Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Across the wider county, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Memorial Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Memorial Elem School. On composite proficiency, Memorial Elem School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

Memorial Elem School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Memorial Elem School has shrank 26%, going from 392 students in 2018 to 291 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 69% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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