Ridge Family Center for Learning

As a small K-5 school in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Ridge Family Center for Learning caters to 261 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Comm Cons SD 59. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Ridge Family Center for Learning sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Comm Cons SD 59 runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 5,869 students. Ridge Family Center for Learning is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Ridge Family Center for Learning logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Ridge Family Center for Learning logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Ridge Family Center for Learning qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ridge Family Center for Learning sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 48.7%; actual is 69.8%, +21.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Ridge Family Center for Learning is one.

Grove Jr High 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 Ridge Family Center for Learning. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ridge Family Center for Learning ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.7%.

Ridge Family Center for Learning operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ridge Family Center for Learning has fell 28%, going from 361 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 21% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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