Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 244 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COOK COUNTY SD 130·NCES 170651000335
Nathan Hale Primary School
5324 135th St, Crestwood, IL 60445 · (708) 385-4690 · Cook County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
234 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 77 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 28% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 25% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
32.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
29.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.9% | 29.1% |
| 2023-24 | 29.1% | 19.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Primary School
Nathan Hale Primary School's state test result (28.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Hale Primary School this school | 334 | 70.1% | 28.8% |
| Springfield Elementary School Midlothian | 311 | 73.0% | 38.5% |
| Littlejohn Elementary School DeKalb | 362 | 70.7% | 25.8% |
| Bent Elementary School Bloomington | 389 | 66.8% | 27.3% |
| Clifford P Carlson Elementary School Rockford | 390 | 74.6% | 29.7% |
| Hometown Elementary School Hometown | 338 | 68.6% | 46.1% |
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 Primary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #1,307 of 1,925 | #414 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #1,313 of 2,077 ▼ 118 | #403 of 829 ▼ 39 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #1,589 of 2,077 ▼ 369 | #570 of 829 ▼ 160 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #1,345 of 2,419 | #557 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #758 of 2,035 | #361 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #410 of 2,042 | #158 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.1% | #745 of 2,132 | #460 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.4% | #106 of 1,461 | #68 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
334
-67 (-17%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 475
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 | 334 | 26.5 | 12.6:1 | 70% (234) |
| 2023-24 | 339 | 24.3 | 13.9:1 | 82% (277) |
| 2022-23 | 396 | 22 | 18.0:1 | 76% (301) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 509 | 31.9 | 16.0:1 | 73% (372) |
| 2015-16 | 545 | 30 | 18.2:1 | 81% (441) |
| 2010-11 | 544 | 33 | 16.5:1 | 60% (324) |
| 2000-01 | 442 | 26 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 475 | 25 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nathan Hale Primary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (509 to 334); teachers down 17% (31.9 to 26.5).
About Nathan Hale Primary School
Nathan Hale Primary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Crestwood, Illinois. Enrollment totals 334 students across pre-K through 3.
Cook County SD 130 operates 11 schools. Combined enrollment is 2,950 students.
No group is above 50% at Nathan Hale Primary School; the largest is Hispanic, at 49%. The rest of enrollment is 25% White and 23% Black. Among all residents of Cook County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. The diversity index for Nathan Hale Primary School is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Nathan Hale Primary School reports a ratio of 12.6 students per teacher, from 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Nathan Hale Primary School, 70% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Nathan Hale Primary School lands at C, ahead of 28% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Nathan Hale Primary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 28.8% and a predicted 31.1%.
Census data for Cook County show median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
Nathan Hale Intermediate, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Nathan Hale Primary School is 4th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Nathan Hale Primary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 17% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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 Cook County SD 130
- Veterans Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 361 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Nathan Hale Middle SchoolMiddle · 334 students
- Paul Revere Primary SchoolElementary · 318 students
- Everett F Kerr Middle SchoolMiddle · 304 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
Other schools in Crestwood
- Nathan Hale Middle SchoolMiddle · 334 students
- Nathan Hale IntermediateElementary · 175 students
- Turner Elementary SchoolElementary · 148 students
- Delta Learning CenterHigh
- Care ProgramElementary
- Eisenhower Coop-DHH ProgramElementary
Nearby schools
- Nathan Hale Intermediate0.1 mi · 175
- Nathan Hale Middle School0.1 mi · 334
- Indian Hill1.1 mi · 183
- A B Shepard High School (Campus)1.3 mi · 1,916
- Chippewa Elementary School1.4 mi · 237
- Kolmar Elementary School1.5 mi · 535
Frequently asked questions
About Nathan Hale Primary SchoolHow large is Nathan Hale Primary School?
Nathan Hale Primary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades PK-03.
Is Nathan Hale Primary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Nathan Hale Primary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-03.
How many teachers does Nathan Hale Primary School have?
Nathan Hale Primary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Nathan Hale Primary School?
Student demographics at Nathan Hale Primary School are roughly 25% White, 49% Hispanic, 23% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Nathan Hale Primary School?
Nathan Hale Primary School is overseen by Cook County SD 130 in Cook County.
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