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If you could change one rule at Nathan Hale Elem School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
525
Elementary
DISTRICT 513 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUNNYBROOK SD 171·NCES 173837003916
Nathan Hale Elementary School
19055 Burnham Ave, Lansing, IL 60438 · (708) 895-3030 · Cook County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL525 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
316 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 27 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 126 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 2 | 0% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
Nathan Hale Elementary School→Heritage Middle School
Based on grade levels within Sunnybrook SD 171. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
31.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.5pp since 2023
Math
18.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.2% | 18.3% |
| 2023-24 | 14.7% | 11.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Nathan Hale Elementary School
Nathan Hale Elementary School's state test result (21.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Hale Elementary School this school | 525 | 60.2% | 21.9% |
| Strassburg Elementary School Sauk Village | 406 | 55.9% | 14.5% |
| Longwood Elementary School Glenwood | 364 | 57.4% | 20.8% |
| Wagoner Elementary School Sauk Village | 466 | 50.6% | N/A |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Broadview | 345 | 60.9% | 38.1% |
| Flossmoor Hills Elementary School Flossmoor | 357 | 60.8% | 51.5% |
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 Nathan Hale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.9% | #1,546 of 1,925 | #532 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #1,653 of 2,077 ▼ 89 | #561 of 829 ▼ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #1,635 of 2,077 ▲ 139 | #594 of 829 ▲ 92 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 525 | #449 of 2,419 | #223 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #1,841 of 2,035 | #760 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.3% | #1,054 of 2,042 | #391 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.2% | #1,010 of 2,132 | #539 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.2% | #1,349 of 1,461 | #616 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
525
+44 (+9%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 545
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 | 525 | 31 | 16.9:1 | 60% (316) |
| 2023-24 | 533 | 32 | 16.7:1 | 12% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 520 | 31 | 16.8:1 | 17% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 537 | 31 | 17.3:1 | 78% (417) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 34 | 15.2:1 | 75% (388) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 26 | 19.8:1 | 79% (409) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 38 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 545 | 32 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nathan Hale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (537 to 525); teachers unchanged (31 to 31).
About Nathan Hale Elementary School
Nathan Hale Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in Lansing, Illinois. The school's 525 students are in pre-K through 4. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students each.
Sunnybrook SD 171 is the local district for Nathan Hale Elementary School. It runs 2 schools with 1,025 students.
By race and ethnicity, Nathan Hale Elementary School is 71% Black. It is also 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% White. For comparison, the population of Cook County is roughly 22% Black. By the diversity index, Nathan Hale Elementary School comes in at 44%.
A ratio of 16.9:1 comes from the school's 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is lower than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 60% of students at Nathan Hale Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
After accounting for student poverty, Nathan Hale Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 21.9% is 14.9 points below the 36.8% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
According to the American Community Survey, in Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Nathan Hale Elementary School is one of 1,406 public schools in Cook County, which together enroll about 697,934 students.
Of nearby public schools, Heritage Middle School is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Nathan Hale Elementary School is behind the 35.7% nearby average, ranking 7th of 7.
Under the NCES locale system, Nathan Hale Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Nathan Hale Elementary School went from 481 students to 525.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Lansing
- Thornton Fractnl So High SchoolHigh · 1,803 students
- Memorial Jr High SchoolMiddle · 854 students
- Coolidge Elementary SchoolElementary · 670 students
- Oak Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 500 students
- Reavis Elementary SchoolElementary · 362 students
Other Nathan Hale Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Nathan Hale Elementary. Nathan Hale Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- Nathan Hale Elementary SchoolSchaumburg, IL · 495 students
- Nathan Hale Elementary SchoolCARTERET, NJ · 436 students
- Nathan Hale Elementary SchoolWhiting, IN · 396 students
Nearby schools
- Heritage Middle School0.3 mi · 500
- Thornton Fractnl So High School0.7 mi · 1,803
- Lester Crawl Primary Center0.9 mi · 135
- Memorial Jr High School1.2 mi · 854
- Coolidge Elementary School1.5 mi · 670
- Munster High School1.7 mi · 1,474
Frequently asked questions
About Nathan Hale Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Nathan Hale Elementary School?
Nathan Hale Elementary School enrolls approximately 525 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Nathan Hale Elementary School serve?
Nathan Hale Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Nathan Hale Elementary School?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at Nathan Hale Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nathan Hale Elementary School?
At Nathan Hale Elementary School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 22% Hispanic, 71% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Nathan Hale Elementary School public or private?
Nathan Hale Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sunnybrook SD 171.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.