Sandridge Elem School

Sandridge Elem School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Lynwood, Illinois, part of Sandridge SD 172. Current enrollment sits at 423 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Sandridge Elem School sits inside Sandridge SD 172, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Sandridge Elem School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Sandridge Elem School logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 7% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sandridge Elem School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 67.7%; actual is 14.2%, a gap of -53.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Sandridge Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Protsman Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sandridge Elem School. On composite proficiency, Sandridge Elem School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 22%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 423 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 58% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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