Newport Elem School

Newport Elem School, a small K-5 school in Wadsworth, Illinois, operated by Beach Park CCSD 3, teaches 261 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Newport Elem School sits 31% below that benchmark.

Beach Park CCSD 3 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,996 students. Newport Elem School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Newport Elem School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder reads as 30% Black, 9% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Newport Elem School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Lake County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Newport Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 30.1%, a residual of -3.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which Newport Elem School is one.

Prairie Trail School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Newport Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Newport Elem School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Newport Elem School has edged down 6%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 44% to 56%.

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