Piper School

Piper School is a low-enrollment elementary campus in Berwyn, Illinois, part of Berwyn South SD 100. The school instructs 292 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Berwyn South SD 100 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,050 students. Piper School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Piper School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder comes out to 10% White, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Piper School logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 70% of students at Piper School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Piper School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 31.0%; actual is 47.4%, +16.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Piper School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: J Sterling Morton West High Sch, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Piper School. On composite proficiency, Piper School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Piper School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 294 (now 292).

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