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Enrollment
418
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BERWYN SOUTH SD 100·NCES 170609000293
Pershing Elementary School
6537 37th St, Berwyn, IL 60402 · (708) 795-2349 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL418 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
310 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 64 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
47.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +20.3pp since 2023
Math
47.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +21.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 21 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.5% | 47.5% |
| 2023-24 | 27.2% | 26.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Pershing Elementary School
Pershing Elementary School's state test result (41.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pershing Elementary School this school | 418 | 74.2% | 41.4% |
| Lowrie Elementary School Elgin | 397 | 75.8% | 16.3% |
| Hiawatha Elementary School Berwyn | 394 | 75.6% | 34.5% |
| Grimes Elementary School Chicago | 368 | 72.0% | 41.3% |
| McKinley Elementary School Elgin | 395 | 77.5% | 19.1% |
| Drexel Elementary School Cicero | 396 | 71.2% | 29.4% |
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 Pershing Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #871 of 1,925 | #229 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #738 of 2,077 ▲ 205 | #221 of 829 ▲ 59 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #1,084 of 2,077 ▲ 208 | #357 of 829 ▲ 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 418 | #915 of 2,419 | #396 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #719 of 2,035 | #341 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.5% | #1,700 of 2,042 | #644 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.2% | #650 of 2,132 | #419 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #894 of 1,461 | #452 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
418
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 421
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 | 418 | 33.5 | 12.5:1 | 74% (310) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 33.8 | 12.5:1 | 74% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 401 | 33.5 | 12.0:1 | 77% (308) |
| 2020-21 | 415 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 32 | 14.6:1 | 70% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 37 | 12.8:1 | 64% (303) |
| 2010-11 | 504 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 81% (409) |
| 2000-01 | 547 | 35 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 421 | 27 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pershing Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (466 to 418); teachers up 5% (32 to 33.5).
About Pershing Elementary School
Pershing Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Illinois, located in Berwyn. Federal data show 418 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Berwyn South SD 100 has 8 schools and 3,050 students, and Pershing Elementary School is one of those schools.
The share of Hispanic students at Pershing Elementary School is 91%. Next come 4% White and 4% Black. The county population is about 27% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pershing Elementary School scores 17%.
Pershing Elementary School reports a ratio of 12.5 students per teacher, from 33.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 1.4 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Pershing Elementary School, 74% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
After adjusting for student poverty, Pershing Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.4%; the prediction is 28.7%.
In the wider Cook County area, median household income comes to about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
Of the public schools around it, Pershing Elementary School is closest to Irving Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Pershing Elementary School's average proficiency of 41.4% compares with 39.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
For locale, NCES codes Pershing Elementary School as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 415 in 2020-21 and 418 in 2024-25.
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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 Berwyn South SD 100
- Freedom Middle SchoolMiddle · 504 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 447 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Komensky Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
- Piper SchoolElementary · 292 students
Other schools in Berwyn
- J Sterling Morton West High SchoolHigh · 3,374 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 793 students
- Prairie Oak SchoolElementary · 698 students
- Freedom Middle SchoolMiddle · 504 students
- Karel Havlicek Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
Other Pershing Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 7 states are named Pershing Elementary. Pershing Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 11.
- Pershing Elementary SchoolJoliet, IL · 621 students
- Pershing ElementaryOrangevale, CA · 494 students
- PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 421 students
- Pershing Elementary SchoolMuskogee, OK · 324 students
- PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLEXINGTON, NE · 312 students
Nearby schools
- Irving Elementary School0.5 mi · 415
- Edison Elementary School0.6 mi · 282
- Abe Lincoln Elementary School0.7 mi · 717
- Heritage Middle School0.8 mi · 447
- Emerson Elementary School0.8 mi · 260
- Freedom Middle School0.8 mi · 504
Frequently asked questions
About Pershing Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pershing Elementary School?
Pershing Elementary School enrolls approximately 418 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Pershing Elementary School serve?
Pershing Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Pershing Elementary School?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at Pershing Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pershing Elementary School?
At Pershing Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 91% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Pershing Elementary School?
Pershing Elementary School is overseen by Berwyn South SD 100 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.