North Elem School

North Elem School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Franklin Park, Illinois, operated by Franklin Park SD 84. The school educates 199 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so North Elem School sits 48% smaller than that benchmark.

Franklin Park SD 84 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,254 students; North Elem School is among them.

Looking at the student body, North Elem School logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 30% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Elem School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 38.7%; actual is 53.7%, +15.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. North Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: East Leyden High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Elem School. On composite proficiency, North Elem School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

North Elem School operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Elem School has fell 20%, going from 249 students in 2018 to 199 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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