Enrollment
260
Elementary
DISTRICT 355 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCK ISLAND SD 41·NCES 173441003535
Ridgewood Elementary School
9607 14th St W, Rock Island, IL 61201 · (309) 793-5980 · Rock Island County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL260 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 49% 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.
- A-Beats 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
11.9:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
227 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 23 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 35% larger than its 6th grade class (23).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
37.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +17.3pp since 2023
Math
28.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 28.3% |
| 2023-24 | 19.7% | 16.4% |
% 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
30.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Ridgewood Elementary School
Ridgewood Elementary School's state test result (30.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgewood Elementary School this school | 260 | 87.3% | 30.8% |
| J L Buford Intermediate Ed Center Mount Vernon | 260 | 85.0% | 25.8% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Jacksonville | 246 | 86.2% | 32.2% |
| Dr Andy Hall Early Educ Center Mount Vernon | 243 | 81.5% | N/A |
| Northview Elementary School Rantoul | 218 | 85.3% | 19.8% |
| Michael E Baum Elementary School Decatur | 313 | 86.6% | 16.4% |
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 Ridgewood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Rock Island County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #1,247 of 1,925 | #11 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #1,345 of 2,077 ▲ 2 | #13 of 28 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,453 of 2,077 ▲ 125 | #13 of 28 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 260 | #1,775 of 2,419 | #25 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #507 of 2,035 | #4 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #395 of 2,042 | #18 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.3% | #353 of 2,132 | #10 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #549 of 1,461 | #6 of 19 |
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
260
-29 (-10%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 348
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 | 260 | 21.9 | 11.9:1 | 87% (227) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 21.7 | 12.7:1 | 57% (157) |
| 2022-23 | 279 | 22.4 | 12.5:1 | 68% (189) |
| 2020-21 | 289 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 316 | 19.9 | 15.9:1 | 60% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 298 | 17 | 17.5:1 | 56% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 382 | 18 | 21.2:1 | 54% (205) |
| 2000-01 | 336 | 18 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 348 | 18 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ridgewood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (316 to 260); teachers up 10% (19.9 to 21.9).
About Ridgewood Elementary School
Ridgewood Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in Rock Island, Illinois. The school offers pre-K through 6 and enrolls 260 students. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average enrollment is about 381.
Rock Island SD 41 has 6,292 students spread across 13 schools.
White students are 52% of those enrolled at Ridgewood Elementary School. The remaining shares are 25% Black, 13% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of Rock Island County's population at about 72%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 21.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.9:1. Compared with the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 87%. Compared with the 65% average for public schools in Rock Island County, the school's rate is higher.
Ridgewood Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 49% of Illinois public elementary schools.
In Illinois, Ridgewood Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 30.8% actual against a predicted 21.1%.
In the wider Rock Island County area, median household income comes to about $67,159, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Rock Island County counts 57 public schools with about 21,921 students.
Ridgewood Elementary School's nearest public school is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School (about 1.2 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Ridgewood Elementary School is 3rd on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school shrank from 289 students in 2020-21 to 260 in 2024-25.
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Rock Island County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
142,757
Census ACS
Median income
$67,159
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
21,921 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rock Island SD 41
- Rock Island High SchoolHigh · 1,812 students
- Rock Island AcademyElementary · 540 students
- Washington Jr High SchoolMiddle · 529 students
- Eugene Field Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
- RicmsElementary · 462 students
- Edison Jr High SchoolMiddle · 398 students
Other schools in Rock Island
- Rock Island High SchoolHigh · 1,812 students
- Rock Island AcademyElementary · 540 students
- Washington Jr High SchoolMiddle · 529 students
- Eugene Field Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
- RicmsElementary · 462 students
- Edison Jr High SchoolMiddle · 398 students
Other Ridgewood Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 7 states are named Ridgewood Elementary. Ridgewood Elementary School is the 8th largest of the 9.
- Ridgewood Elementary SchoolEast Moline, IL · 407 students
- Ridgewood ElementaryWinterville, NC · 700 students
- Ridgewood Elementary SchoolHilliard, OH · 598 students
- Ridgewood Elementary SchoolLUBBOCK, TX · 545 students
- Ridgewood Elementary SchoolWest, OH · 432 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School1.2 mi · 277
- Edison Jr High School3.2 mi · 398
- Earl H Hanson Elementary School3.3 mi · 201
- Horace Mann ELC3.7 mi · 387
- Eugene Field Elementary School4.0 mi · 496
- Frances Willard Elementary School4.2 mi · 312
Frequently asked questions
About Ridgewood Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ridgewood Elementary School?
Ridgewood Elementary School enrolls approximately 260 students in grades PK-06.
Is Ridgewood Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ridgewood Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Ridgewood Elementary School have?
Ridgewood Elementary School employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Ridgewood Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ridgewood Elementary School are roughly 52% White, 8% Hispanic, 25% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Ridgewood Elementary School in?
Ridgewood Elementary School is part of Rock Island SD 41.
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