Peter J Palombi School

Peter J Palombi School operates as a heavily attended 6-8 campus in Lake Villa, Illinois, operated by Lake Villa CCSD 41. Current enrollment sits at 844 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Peter J Palombi School sits 83% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Lake Villa CCSD 41, which oversees 4 schools and 2,388 students, Peter J Palombi School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Peter J Palombi School logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 37% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, The school employs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Peter J Palombi School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lake County shows median household earnings sit near $110,416, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Peter J Palombi School is one of 214 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students).

The closest other public school is Pleviak Elem School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Peter J Palombi School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 32%: 637 students in 2018 compared to 844 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 49% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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