Enrollment
225
Elementary
DISTRICT 361 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH SHORE SD 112·NCES 170011904408
Red Oak Elementary School
530 Red Oak Ln, Highland Park, IL 60035 · (224) 765-3750 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL225 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Illinois public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
83 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 40 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 18% larger than its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
77.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +30.5pp since 2023
Math
59.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +12.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 31 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.2% | 59.4% |
| 2023-24 | 46.7% | 46.7% |
% 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
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Red Oak Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Oak Elementary School this school | 225 | 36.9% | 63.5% |
| F B Mccord Elementary School Burbank | 186 | 34.9% | N/A |
| Oakbrook Elementary School Wood Dale | 251 | 45.0% | N/A |
| Bristol Grade School Bristol | 196 | 37.2% | 44.1% |
| Goodwin Elementary School North Aurora | 315 | 34.0% | 38.6% |
| C E Miller Elementary School Westmont | 194 | 38.7% | N/A |
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 Red Oak Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #237 of 1,925 | #11 of 69 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #424 of 2,077 ▼ 49 | #41 of 102 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #185 of 2,077 ▲ 396 | #26 of 102 ▲ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 225 | #1,942 of 2,419 | #112 of 121 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #87 of 2,035 | #8 of 114 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.2% | #614 of 2,042 | #37 of 114 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.9% | #1,624 of 2,132 | #59 of 82 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.0% | #154 of 1,461 | #6 of 71 |
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
225
-32 (-12%) vs 2020
-36% since 2000-01, when it was 354
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 | 225 | 23.4 | 9.6:1 | 37% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 205 | 21.5 | 9.5:1 | 40% (81) |
| 2022-23 | 212 | 22.1 | 9.6:1 | 38% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 257 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 326 | 29.3 | 11.1:1 | 29% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 324 | 28 | 11.6:1 | 27% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 320 | 24 | 13.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 354 | 23 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Red Oak Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (326 to 225); teachers down 20% (29.3 to 23.4).
About Red Oak Elementary School
Students in Highland Park, Illinois, attend Red Oak Elementary School, a small elementary school. There are 225 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Illinois enroll around 381, and this school is 41% below that mark.
North Shore SD 112 has 9 schools; together they serve 3,730 students.
The largest group at Red Oak Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 52%. The remaining students are 36% White, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Among people living in Lake County, the Hispanic share is about 25%. The diversity index for Red Oak Elementary School is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Red Oak Elementary School has 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is 13.9:1. The school has 37% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Lake County is 54%.
Red Oak Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 86% of Illinois public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Red Oak Elementary School is 13.3 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 63.5% actual, 50.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
In Lake County, home to about 714,223 people, median household income comes to about $110,416, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 214 public schools in the county, enrolling about 118,032, Red Oak Elementary School among them.
Sherwood Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Red Oak Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools.
Red Oak Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 12%, from 257 to 225.
Red Oak Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
714,223
Census ACS
Median income
$110,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
118,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Shore SD 112
- Edgewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- Oak Terrace Elementary SchoolElementary · 494 students
- Indian Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- Wayne Thomas Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
Other schools in Highland Park
- Highland Park High SchoolHigh · 1,661 students
- Edgewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- Indian Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- Wayne Thomas Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
Other Red Oak Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Red Oak Elementary. Red Oak Elementary School is the 8th largest of the 9.
- Red Oak ElementaryRed Oak, NC · 696 students
- Red Oak Elementary SchoolStockbridge, GA · 638 students
- Red Oak ElementaryOak Park, CA · 569 students
- Red Oak Elementary SchoolNicholasville, KY · 519 students
- Red Oak Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 491 students
Nearby schools
- Sherwood Elementary School0.2 mi · 342
- Kipling Elementary School1.1 mi · 452
- Edgewood Middle School1.2 mi · 663
- Walden Elementary School1.6 mi · 445
- Alan B Shepard Middle School1.7 mi · 476
- Ravinia Elementary School1.9 mi · 285
Frequently asked questions
About Red Oak Elementary SchoolHow large is Red Oak Elementary School?
Red Oak Elementary School enrolls approximately 225 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Red Oak Elementary School serve?
Red Oak Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Red Oak Elementary School?
Approximately 9.6:1 students per teacher at Red Oak Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Red Oak Elementary School?
At Red Oak Elementary School, the student body is approximately 36% White, 52% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Red Oak Elementary School?
Red Oak Elementary School is overseen by North Shore SD 112 in Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.