Mohawk Primary Center

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Park Forest, Illinois, Mohawk Primary Center serves 283 students from grades K through 3, one of the schools within Park Forest SD 163. That puts it 26% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Park Forest SD 163, which oversees 6 schools and 1,524 students, Mohawk Primary Center is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mohawk Primary Center shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 84% of students are eligible 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.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mohawk Primary Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.8%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of +9.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Mohawk Primary Center is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Michelle Obama Sch of Technology, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mohawk Primary Center. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mohawk Primary Center at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 28.7%.

Mohawk Primary Center operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mohawk Primary Center has changed only slightly, going from 282 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 84% to 71% over that span.

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