Salt Creek Elem School

Set in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Salt Creek Elem School is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within Comm Cons SD 59. It hosts 410 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 15 schools in Comm Cons SD 59 (5,869 students total), Salt Creek Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Salt Creek Elem School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Salt Creek Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at Salt Creek Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Salt Creek Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 38.7%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the area at large, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Salt Creek Elem School is one.

Grove Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Salt Creek Elem School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Salt Creek Elem School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 429 (now 410). Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.