Red Oak Elem School

Set in Highland Park, Illinois, Red Oak Elem School is a small K-5 school, part of North Shore SD 112. It serves 225 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 41% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

North Shore SD 112 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,730 students. Red Oak Elem School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Red Oak Elem School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% White, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Red Oak Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 63.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate median household earnings sit near $110,416, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Red Oak Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Sherwood Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Red Oak Elem School.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Red Oak Elem School's enrollment has declined 31% since 2018, when it stood at 326 (now 225). White enrollment moved from 59% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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