Proviso East High School

Proviso East High School, a well-populated high school in Maywood, Illinois, one of the schools within Proviso Twp HSD 209, serves 1,663 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 99% larger than the state mean of about 834.

Proviso Twp HSD 209 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 4,458 students; Proviso East High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Proviso East High School logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 38% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Proviso East High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at Proviso East High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Proviso East High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.9%; actual is 12.9%, a gap of -28.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Proviso East High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Emerson Elem School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Proviso East High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 1,620 students in 2018 compared to 1,663 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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