Enrollment
197
Elementary
DISTRICT 237 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOLTON SD 148·NCES 171245005420
Park Elementary School
14200 S Wentworth Ave, Riverdale, IL 60827 · (708) 849-9440 · Cook County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL197 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
188 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 21 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 32 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (21) is 34% smaller than its 6th grade class (32).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
43.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +15.1pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.5% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.4% | 12.8% |
% 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 16% 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 14 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 Park Elementary School
Park Elementary School's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Elementary School this school | 197 | 95.4% | 30.4% |
| Kellman Corporate Community Elementary School Chicago | 209 | 95.2% | 12.4% |
| Dubois Elementary School Chicago | 201 | 95.0% | 22.4% |
| Schmid Elementary School Chicago | 195 | 97.9% | 15.6% |
| Chalmers STEAM Elementary Chicago | 205 | 98.5% | 18.1% |
| Cullen Elementary School Chicago | 176 | 97.2% | 24.1% |
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 Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #1,260 of 1,925 | #391 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #1,603 of 2,077 ▼ 104 | #536 of 829 ▼ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #1,227 of 2,077 ▲ 13 | #407 of 829 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 197 | #2,048 of 2,419 | #822 of 901 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.4% | #136 of 2,132 | #106 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #804 of 1,461 | #416 of 661 |
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
197
-7 (-3%) vs 2020
+294% since 1990-91, when it was 50
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 | 197 | 16.6 | 11.9:1 | 95% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 200 | 19.6 | 10.2:1 | 99% (198) |
| 2022-23 | 205 | 20.6 | 10.0:1 | 100% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 204 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 224 | 22.7 | 9.9:1 | 99% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 232 | 22 | 10.6:1 | 96% (222) |
| 2010-11 | 233 | 20 | 11.7:1 | 90% (210) |
| 2000-01 | 138 | 4 | 34.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 50 | 4 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (224 to 197); teachers down 27% (22.7 to 16.6).
About Park Elementary School
Park Elementary School is a small elementary school in Riverdale, Illinois. It is open to students in kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 197 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
Park Elementary School falls under Dolton SD 148, which has 10 schools enrolling 2,077 students.
Black students are 90% of those enrolled at Park Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 6% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Cook County's population at about 22%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 18%.
The school had 16.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. The school reported 95% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 29 points lower.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 16.4% for Park Elementary School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 30.4%. The 14.0-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Illinois schools.
In Cook County, home to about 5,182,090 people, median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Park Elementary School among them.
The closest school to Park Elementary School is Riverdale School, located about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Park Elementary School at 1st of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 197 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 204.
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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 Dolton SD 148
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 259 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
- Early Childhood CntrElementary · 196 students
- Lincoln Junior High SchoolMiddle · 168 students
Other schools in Riverdale
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
- Gen George Patton Elementary SchoolElementary · 184 students
- Riverdale SchoolElementary · 137 students
- Washington Junior HighMiddle · 118 students
- Family Enrichment PRG/FEPElementary
Other Park Elementary schools
25 other US public schools in 19 states are named Park Elementary. Park Elementary School is the 25th largest of the 26.
- Park Elementary SchoolNewark, NJ · 747 students
- Park Elementary SchoolHamilton, GA · 628 students
- Park ElementaryAlhambra, CA · 581 students
- PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAVON PARK, FL · 557 students
- Park ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 538 students
Nearby schools
- Riverdale School0.2 mi · 137
- Washington Elementary School0.4 mi · 282
- Washington Junior High0.4 mi · 118
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.5 mi · 248
- Roosevelt Junior High School0.5 mi · 130
- Early Childhood Cntr0.7 mi · 196
Frequently asked questions
About Park Elementary SchoolHow large is Park Elementary School?
Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 197 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Park Elementary School serve?
Park Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Park Elementary School?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at Park Elementary School.
How diverse is Park Elementary School?
Park Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 6% Hispanic, 90% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Park Elementary School?
Park Elementary School is overseen by Dolton SD 148 in Cook County.
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