Enrollment
288
Elementary
DISTRICT 296 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOLTON SD 149·NCES 171242005043
New Beginnings Learning Academy
15703 Clyde Ave, South Holland, IL 60473 · (708) 768-5200 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL288 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
19.2:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
286 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · 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
Based on grade levels within Dolton SD 149. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
18.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +2.5pp since 2023
Math
11.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.7% | 11.6% |
| 2023-24 | 16.2% | 6.0% |
% 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
14.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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 New Beginnings Learning Academy
New Beginnings Learning Academy's state test result (14.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Beginnings Learning Academy this school | 288 | 99.3% | 14.8% |
| Washington Elementary School Riverdale | 282 | 99.6% | 12.7% |
| Brown R Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 279 | 97.5% | 22.2% |
| Betty Shabazz Internl Charter School Chicago | 293 | 99.3% | 34.7% |
| Carol Moseley Braun School Calumet City | 264 | 100.0% | 23.6% |
| Drake Elementary School Chicago | 302 | 97.7% | 15.9% |
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 New Beginnings Learning Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.8% | #1,759 of 1,925 | #662 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.6% | #1,851 of 2,077 ▼ 38 | #676 of 829 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #1,949 of 2,077 ▼ 244 | #774 of 829 ▼ 127 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 288 | #1,612 of 2,419 | #661 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #1,969 of 2,035 | #797 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.4% | #1,989 of 2,042 | #784 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #37 of 2,132 | #24 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #460 of 1,461 | #266 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
288
-62 (-18%) vs 2020
-40% since 2010-11, when it was 483
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 | 288 | 15 | 19.2:1 | 99% (286) |
| 2023-24 | 317 | 19 | 16.7:1 | 99% (315) |
| 2022-23 | 326 | 18 | 18.1:1 | 99% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 350 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 358 | 18 | 19.9:1 | 100% (357) |
| 2015-16 | 383 | 19 | 20.2:1 | 99% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 22 | 21.9:1 | 88% (427) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Beginnings Learning Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (358 to 288); teachers down 17% (18 to 15).
About New Beginnings Learning Academy
New Beginnings Learning Academy is a low-enrollment elementary school found in South Holland, Illinois. Its enrollment is 288 students, spread over kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 24% below average.
Dolton SD 149 enrolls 2,192 students, and its 8 schools include New Beginnings Learning Academy.
Roughly 97% of students at New Beginnings Learning Academy are Black. Smaller groups are 2% Hispanic. County-wide, 22% of Cook County residents are Black. The diversity index for New Beginnings Learning Academy is 5%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 19.2:1 is based on 15 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 99%. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
On the allk12 Grade, New Beginnings Learning Academy lands at C-, ahead of 18% of Illinois public elementary schools.
A school with New Beginnings Learning Academy's lunch-eligibility share in Illinois is predicted to score 14.2%. New Beginnings Learning Academy scores 14.8%, within a point of that line.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that median household income comes to about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
S T E M Academy is about 0.5 miles from New Beginnings Learning Academy, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around New Beginnings Learning Academy holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 19.2% proficiency; New Beginnings Learning Academy posts 14.8%.
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.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 288, compared with 350 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 Dolton SD 149
- Caroline Sibley Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
- Berger-Vandenberg Elementary SchoolElementary · 266 students
- Carol Moseley Braun SchoolElementary · 264 students
- Creative Communications AcademyMiddle · 246 students
- S T E M AcademyMiddle · 243 students
- Diekman Elementary SchoolElementary · 227 students
Other schools in South Holland
- Thornwood High SchoolHigh · 1,843 students
- Greenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- McKinley Jr High SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- Madison SchoolElementary · 277 students
- Eisenhower SchoolElementary · 274 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 176 students
Nearby schools
- S T E M Academy0.5 mi · 243
- Creative Communications Academy0.5 mi · 246
- School of Fine Arts0.5 mi · 224
- Carol Moseley Braun School0.6 mi · 264
- Diekman Elementary School0.9 mi · 227
- Eisenhower School1.0 mi · 274
Frequently asked questions
About New Beginnings Learning AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at New Beginnings Learning Academy?
New Beginnings Learning Academy enrolls approximately 288 students in grades KG-05.
Is New Beginnings Learning Academy an elementary, middle, or high school?
New Beginnings Learning Academy is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does New Beginnings Learning Academy have?
New Beginnings Learning Academy employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.2:1.
How diverse is New Beginnings Learning Academy?
New Beginnings Learning Academy reports a student body of 0% White, 2% Hispanic, 97% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is New Beginnings Learning Academy public or private?
New Beginnings Learning Academy is a public K-12 school, overseen by Dolton SD 149.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.