Oak Crest School

Located at 38550 N Lewis Ave, in Beach Park, Illinois, Oak Crest School is a cozy K-5 school that enrolls 308 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Beach Park CCSD 3.

Oak Crest School is one of 5 schools operated by Beach Park CCSD 3, a district that teaches 1,996 students overall.

On demographics, Oak Crest School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder reads as 20% Black, 13% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, Oak Crest School reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Crest School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.8%; this one comes in at 24.2%, -15.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Lake County reports that median household income runs about $110,416, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which Oak Crest School is one.

Kenneth Murphy School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Crest School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Crest School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Oak Crest School's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 308). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 45% to 61%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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