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What's the biggest difference between Oak Ridge Elem School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
774
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH PALOS SD 117·NCES 172889003030
Oak Ridge Elementary School
8791 W 103rd St, Palos Hills, IL 60465 · (708) 233-5300 · Cook County
GRADES 02–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL774 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
13.8:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
511 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 188 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 194 | 25% |
| Grade 4 | 206 | 27% |
| Grade 5 | 186 | 24% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
Oak Ridge Elementary School→H H Conrady Jr High School
Based on grade levels within North Palos SD 117. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
80.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.1pp since 2023
Math
75.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +14.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.9% | 75.5% |
| 2023-24 | 66.8% | 60.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+37.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 37 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Oak Ridge Elementary School
Oak Ridge Elementary School's state test result (70.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Ridge Elementary School this school | 774 | 66.0% | 70.5% |
| Glen Oaks Elementary School Hickory Hills | 649 | 59.9% | 71.8% |
| Northwest Elementary School La Salle | 650 | 68.2% | 30.7% |
| Cherry Valley Elementary School Rockford | 676 | 64.2% | 35.3% |
| John F Kennedy Elementary School Spring Valley | 632 | 60.9% | 30.6% |
| Frank A Brodnicki Elementary School Justice | 618 | 61.7% | 50.6% |
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 Oak Ridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #115 of 1,925 | #44 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #132 of 2,077 ▲ 13 | #51 of 829 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.9% | #118 of 2,077 ▲ 32 | #53 of 829 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 774 | #75 of 2,419 | #53 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,173 of 2,035 | #523 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.4% | #172 of 2,042 | #81 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.0% | #845 of 2,132 | #495 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.6% | #410 of 615 | #125 of 186 |
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
774
+86 (+13%) vs 2020
+49% since 1990-91, when it was 521
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 | 774 | 56 | 13.8:1 | 66% (511) |
| 2023-24 | 753 | 57 | 13.2:1 | 64% (483) |
| 2022-23 | 703 | 55 | 12.8:1 | 58% (410) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 733 | 45.4 | 16.1:1 | 55% (401) |
| 2015-16 | 742 | 41 | 18.1:1 | 50% (370) |
| 2010-11 | 532 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 34% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 536 | 33 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 521 | 19 | 27.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Ridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (733 to 774); teachers up 23% (45.4 to 56).
About Oak Ridge Elementary School
In Palos Hills, Illinois, part of Cook County, Oak Ridge Elementary School is an elementary school. It offers grades 2 through 5 and has 774 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 103% higher.
Oak Ridge Elementary School is among 5 schools run by North Palos SD 117, which serves 3,350 students.
The biggest share of students at Oak Ridge Elementary School, 42%, is White. Beyond that, enrollment is 26% multiracial, 25% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 3% Asian. That is in line with Cook County, where about 44% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 69%.
Staffing at Oak Ridge Elementary School comes to 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.8:1. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is close to this figure. Oak Ridge Elementary School counts 66% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Cook County is similar, at 66%.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Oak Ridge Elementary School outscored 96%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Oak Ridge Elementary School is 37.2 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Illinois.
For Cook County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Oak Ridge Elementary School among them.
About 1.2 miles separate Oak Ridge Elementary School from the closest public school, Dr Kenneth M Sorrick School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 59.7%; Oak Ridge Elementary School's is 70.5%, ranking 3rd of 5.
NCES assigns Oak Ridge Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 688 to 774, a 13% rise.
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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 North Palos SD 117
- H H Conrady Jr High SchoolMiddle · 1,047 students
- Glen Oaks Elementary SchoolElementary · 649 students
- Dr Kenneth M Sorrick SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Dorn Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
Other schools in Palos Hills
- Amos Alonzo Stagg High SchoolHigh · 2,560 students
- Dr Kenneth M Sorrick SchoolElementary · 449 students
Other Oak Ridge Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 8 states are named Oak Ridge Elementary. Oak Ridge Elementary School is the largest of the 11.
- Oak Ridge ElementaryOak Ridge, NC · 712 students
- Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolLUBBOCK, TX · 678 students
- Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolCONROE, TX · 608 students
- Oak Ridge ElementaryChino Hills, CA · 521 students
- Oak Ridge ElementarySan Jose, CA · 495 students
Nearby schools
- Dr Kenneth M Sorrick School1.2 mi · 449
- H H Conrady Jr High School1.3 mi · 1,047
- Amos Alonzo Stagg High School1.4 mi · 2,560
- Glen Oaks Elementary School1.6 mi · 649
- Worthwoods Elementary School1.9 mi · 272
- Dorn Elementary School1.9 mi · 431
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolHow large is Oak Ridge Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 774 students in grades 02-05.
Is Oak Ridge Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oak Ridge Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades 02-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oak Ridge Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oak Ridge Elementary School is approximately 13.8:1 (56 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Oak Ridge Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Elementary School reports a student body of 42% White, 25% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 26% Two or more.
Who oversees Oak Ridge Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Elementary School is overseen by North Palos SD 117 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.