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Enrollment
572
Elementary
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO RIDGE SD 127-5·NCES 170999001232
Ridge Lawn Elementary School
5757 105th St, Chicago Ridge, IL 60415 · (708) 636-2002 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
13.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
402 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 56%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 103 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 32% larger than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Ridge Lawn Elementary School→Elden D Finley Jr High School
Based on grade levels within Chicago Ridge SD 127-5. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
31.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.8pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +14.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.6% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.8% | 17.5% |
% 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
27.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Ridge Lawn Elementary School
Ridge Lawn Elementary School's state test result (27.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridge Lawn Elementary School this school | 572 | 70.3% | 27.6% |
| Riddle Elementary School Mattoon | 589 | 71.1% | 35.5% |
| Arland D Williams Jr Elementary School Mattoon | 653 | 68.6% | 46.1% |
| Colonel George Iles Elementary School Quincy | 535 | 69.2% | 37.8% |
| Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School Quincy | 500 | 67.2% | 34.1% |
| Bluffview Elementary School Dupo | 501 | 67.5% | 46.0% |
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 Ridge Lawn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.6% | #1,358 of 1,925 | #443 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #1,216 of 2,077 ▲ 75 | #370 of 829 ▲ 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #1,621 of 2,077 ▼ 45 | #588 of 829 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #327 of 2,419 | #175 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,223 of 2,035 | #543 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.3% | #1,123 of 2,042 | #423 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.3% | #738 of 2,132 | #457 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.5% | #318 of 615 | #92 of 186 |
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
572
+66 (+13%) vs 2020
+61% since 1990-91, when it was 356
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 | 572 | 41 | 13.9:1 | 70% (402) |
| 2023-24 | 547 | 39 | 14.0:1 | 87% (474) |
| 2022-23 | 521 | 37 | 14.1:1 | 86% (448) |
| 2020-21 | 506 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 527 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 78% (411) |
| 2015-16 | 526 | 32 | 16.4:1 | 77% (406) |
| 2010-11 | 482 | 31 | 15.6:1 | 61% (295) |
| 2000-01 | 361 | 18 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 356 | 19 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ridge Lawn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (527 to 572); teachers up 24% (33 to 41).
About Ridge Lawn Elementary School
Ridge Lawn Elementary School is a large elementary school in Chicago Ridge, Illinois, one of the schools in Chicago Ridge SD 127-5. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 572 students. That is 50% larger than the average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
District-wide, Chicago Ridge SD 127-5 has 3 schools and 1,485 students.
Federal enrollment data show Ridge Lawn Elementary School is 75% White. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 44% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 41, compared with 70 nationally.
Ridge Lawn Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1, with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 13.9:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 70% at Ridge Lawn Elementary School.
Ridge Lawn Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of Illinois public elementary schools.
In Illinois, Ridge Lawn Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 27.6% actual against a predicted 30.9%.
Census data for Cook County show median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Ridge Lawn Elementary School among them.
Among nearby public schools, H L Richards High School(Campus) is closest at about 0.3 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Ridge Lawn Elementary School. On state test proficiency, Ridge Lawn Elementary School ranks 9th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Ridge Lawn Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 13% rise took enrollment from 506 in 2020-21 to 572 in 2024-25.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Ridge SD 127-5
- Ridge Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 508 students
- Elden D Finley Jr High SchoolMiddle · 405 students
Other schools in Chicago Ridge
- Ridge Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 508 students
- Elden D Finley Jr High SchoolMiddle · 405 students
Nearby schools
- H L Richards High School(Campus)0.3 mi · 1,702
- Ridge Central Elementary School0.6 mi · 508
- Elden D Finley Jr High School0.6 mi · 405
- Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School0.9 mi · 1,090
- Columbus Manor Elementary School1.0 mi · 359
- Sward Elementary School1.3 mi · 457
Frequently asked questions
About Ridge Lawn Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ridge Lawn Elementary School?
Ridge Lawn Elementary School enrolls approximately 572 students in grades PK-05.
Is Ridge Lawn Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ridge Lawn Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Ridge Lawn Elementary School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Ridge Lawn Elementary School.
How diverse is Ridge Lawn Elementary School?
Ridge Lawn Elementary School reports a student body of 75% White, 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Ridge Lawn Elementary School?
Ridge Lawn Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Ridge SD 127-5 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.