Oakdale Elem School

Oakdale Elem School operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Waukegan, Illinois, run under Waukegan CUSD 60. Current enrollment sits at 505 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% larger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Waukegan CUSD 60 comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 13,640 students; Oakdale Elem School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Oakdale Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). Beyond that, the school reports 11% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lake County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Oakdale Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.1%; Oakdale Elem School posts 12.3%, -20.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which Oakdale Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Early Learning Center, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oakdale Elem School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 533 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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