Enrollment
164
Elementary
DISTRICT 213 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRAIRIE-HILLS ESD 144·NCES 172472002679
Nob Hill Elementary School
3701 168th St, Country Club Hills, IL 60478 · (708) 335-9770 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL164 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
15.6:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
162 students
DISTRICT 96% · 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 | 11 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 32 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 20 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 25 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 25 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is 28% larger than its 5th grade class (25).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
Nob Hill Elementary School→Prairie-Hills Junior High School
Based on grade levels within Prairie-Hills ESD 144. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
35.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +26.4pp since 2023
Math
18.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 35 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 26 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.2% | 18.1% |
| 2023-24 | 8.8% | 2.5% |
% 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
20.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% 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 Nob Hill Elementary School
Nob Hill Elementary School's state test result (20.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nob Hill Elementary School this school | 164 | 98.8% | 20.7% |
| Faraday Elementary School Chicago | 178 | 98.3% | 18.0% |
| Early Childhood Cntr Dolton | 196 | 99.5% | N/A |
| Schmid Elementary School Chicago | 195 | 97.9% | 15.6% |
| Johnson STEAM Elementary Chicago | 209 | 99.5% | 13.5% |
| Chalmers STEAM Elementary Chicago | 205 | 98.5% | 18.1% |
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 Nob Hill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #1,586 of 1,925 | #554 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #1,656 of 2,077 ▲ 344 | #562 of 829 ▲ 223 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #1,505 of 2,077 ▲ 458 | #537 of 829 ▲ 250 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 164 | #2,169 of 2,419 | #862 of 901 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.8% | #51 of 2,132 | #32 of 804 |
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
164
-40 (-20%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 349
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 | 164 | 10.5 | 15.6:1 | 99% (162) |
| 2023-24 | 181 | 12.1 | 15.0:1 | 99% (180) |
| 2022-23 | 200 | 16 | 12.5:1 | 98% (195) |
| 2020-21 | 204 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 189 | 14 | 13.5:1 | 96% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 149 | 11 | 13.6:1 | 97% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 214 | 18 | 11.9:1 | 93% (198) |
| 2000-01 | 322 | 17 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 349 | 19 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nob Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (189 to 164); teachers down 25% (14 to 10.5).
About Nob Hill Elementary School
Nob Hill Elementary School is one of the public schools in Country Club Hills, Illinois. It is a low-enrollment elementary school. It enrolled 164 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students each.
Nob Hill Elementary School is among 9 schools run by Prairie-Hills ESD 144, which serves 2,473 students.
Federal enrollment data show Nob Hill Elementary School is 85% Black. After that, the student body is 12% Hispanic. Among all residents of Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. Pick two students at random and there is a 27% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal data list 10.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Nob Hill Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 15.6:1. That is higher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The lunch program counts 99% of students at Nob Hill Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
Nob Hill Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 33% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 14.5% at Nob Hill Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 20.7%.
Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 1,406 public schools in Cook County, enrolling about 697,934 students in all.
The next-closest public school is Highlands Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Nob Hill Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 164, a 20% decrease from 204 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 Prairie-Hills ESD 144
- Prairie-Hills Junior High SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Mae Jemison SchoolElementary · 368 students
- Highlands Elementary SchoolElementary · 311 students
- Markham Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
- Chateaux SchoolElementary · 249 students
- Fieldcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 217 students
Other schools in Country Club Hills
- Hillcrest High SchoolHigh · 1,100 students
- Meadowview SchoolElementary · 293 students
- Southwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 283 students
- Zenon J Sykuta SchoolElementary · 273 students
Other Nob Hill Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Nob Hill Elementary. Nob Hill Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- NOB HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSUNRISE, FL · 510 students
- Nob Hill Elementary SchoolYakima, WA · 339 students
Nearby schools
- Highlands Elementary School0.4 mi · 311
- Markham Park Elementary School0.7 mi · 292
- Hillcrest High School0.8 mi · 1,100
- Primary Learning Center1.0 mi · 4
- Prairie-Hills STEAM Academy1.0 mi · 102
- Fieldcrest Elementary School1.1 mi · 217
Frequently asked questions
About Nob Hill Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Nob Hill Elementary School?
Nob Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 164 students in grades PK-05.
Is Nob Hill Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Nob Hill Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Nob Hill Elementary School?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at Nob Hill Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Nob Hill Elementary School?
Student demographics at Nob Hill Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 12% Hispanic, 85% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Nob Hill Elementary School in?
Nob Hill Elementary School is part of Prairie-Hills ESD 144.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.