Milne Grove Elem School

Located at 565 E 7th St, in Lockport, Illinois, Milne Grove Elem School is a tight-knit elementary campus that caters to 233 students (grades pre-K through 3), operated by Lockport SD 91. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 381.

Across the 2 schools in Lockport SD 91 (493 students total), Milne Grove Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Milne Grove Elem School logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Milne Grove Elem School lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Milne Grove Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Milne Grove Elem School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.2%; Milne Grove Elem School posts 65.8%, +18.5 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Will County shows median household income runs about $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Milne Grove Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kelvin Grove Jr High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Milne Grove Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Milne Grove Elem School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 51.0%.

Milne Grove Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 262 students in 2018 compared to 233 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.