Rockdale Elem School

Rockdale Elem School, an intimate elementary campus in Rockdale, Illinois, part of Rockdale SD 84, enrolls 257 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Rockdale Elem School sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

Rockdale Elem School sits inside Rockdale SD 84, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Rockdale Elem School reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 18% White, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Will County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rockdale Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Around the school, Will County reports that median household earnings sit near $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Rockdale Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lynne Thigpen Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rockdale Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rockdale Elem School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 22.8%.

Rockdale Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 257 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 35% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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