Enrollment
266
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESD 159·NCES 173630003751
Neil Armstrong Elementary School
5030 Imperial Dr, Richton Park, IL 60471 · (708) 481-7424 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL266 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% 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
13.5:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
186 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 29 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
Neil Armstrong Elementary School→Colin Powell Middle School
Based on grade levels within ESD 159. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
37.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.9pp since 2023
Math
21.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.7% | 21.5% |
| 2023-24 | 24.8% | 16.6% |
% 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
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% 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 Neil Armstrong Elementary School
Neil Armstrong Elementary School's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil Armstrong Elementary School this school | 266 | 69.9% | 26.5% |
| Mays Elementary Academy Chicago | 277 | 67.9% | 9.9% |
| Woodgate Elementary School Matteson | 260 | 72.7% | 33.7% |
| Woodson South Elementary School Chicago | 298 | 70.8% | 13.9% |
| Carter Elementary School Chicago | 279 | 70.6% | 12.6% |
| Green W Elementary School Chicago | 267 | 72.3% | 24.8% |
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 Neil Armstrong Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #1,399 of 1,925 | #457 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #1,553 of 2,077 ▼ 215 | #512 of 829 ▼ 86 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #1,425 of 2,077 ▼ 42 | #502 of 829 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 266 | #1,737 of 2,419 | #715 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,067 of 2,035 | #482 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.4% | #1,513 of 2,042 | #565 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.9% | #747 of 2,132 | #461 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #595 of 1,461 | #330 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
266
-23 (-8%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 543
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 | 266 | 19.7 | 13.5:1 | 70% (186) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 20.7 | 13.1:1 | 68% (185) |
| 2022-23 | 281 | 20.5 | 13.7:1 | 53% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 289 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 318 | 29.2 | 10.9:1 | 71% (227) |
| 2015-16 | 299 | 23 | 13.0:1 | 69% (205) |
| 2010-11 | 297 | 20 | 14.8:1 | 64% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 470 | 33 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 543 | 31 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Neil Armstrong Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (318 to 266); teachers down 33% (29.2 to 19.7).
About Neil Armstrong Elementary School
Neil Armstrong Elementary School is the name of a small elementary school in Richton Park, Illinois. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 266 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
ESD 159 enrolls 1,653 students in 5 schools, including Neil Armstrong Elementary School.
About 86% of the student body at Neil Armstrong Elementary School is Black. Other reported shares: 8% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 22% Black among all Cook County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 24% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 19.7 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Neil Armstrong Elementary School was 13.5:1. That is close to the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Neil Armstrong Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 70%.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, Neil Armstrong Elementary School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Neil Armstrong Elementary School is 4.6 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
In the county around the school, Cook County, the median household income is $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County is home to 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 public school students.
The closest other public school is Southland College Prep Chtr High School, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 26.5% is below the 27.3% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 266, an 8% decrease from 289 in 2020-21.
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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 ESD 159
- Colin Powell Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- Marya Yates Elementary SchoolElementary · 284 students
- Sieden Prairie Elementary SchoolElementary · 279 students
- Woodgate Elementary SchoolElementary · 260 students
Other schools in Richton Park
- Southland College Prep Chtr High SchoolHigh · 584 students
- Sauk Elementary SchoolMiddle · 281 students
- Richton Square SchoolElementary · 161 students
- Rich Township Star AcademyHigh
Other Neil Armstrong Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Neil Armstrong Elementary. Neil Armstrong Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 7.
- Neil Armstrong Elementary SchoolHoffman Estates, IL · 498 students
- NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPORT CHARLOTTE, FL · 763 students
- Neil Armstrong Elementary SchoolMooresville, IN · 543 students
- Neil Armstrong Elementary SchoolEldridge, IA · 369 students
- Neil Armstrong Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Southland College Prep Chtr High School0.6 mi · 584
- Sauk Elementary School0.8 mi · 281
- Richton Square School1.5 mi · 161
- Mohawk Primary Center2.1 mi · 283
- Michelle Obama School of Technology2.2 mi · 428
- Talala Elementary School2.2 mi · 305
Frequently asked questions
About Neil Armstrong Elementary SchoolHow large is Neil Armstrong Elementary School?
Neil Armstrong Elementary School enrolls approximately 266 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Neil Armstrong Elementary School serve?
Neil Armstrong Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Neil Armstrong Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Neil Armstrong Elementary School is approximately 13.5:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Neil Armstrong Elementary School?
At Neil Armstrong Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 8% Hispanic, 86% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is Neil Armstrong Elementary School public or private?
Neil Armstrong Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by ESD 159.
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