Sator Sanchez Elem School

Sator Sanchez Elem School, a heavily attended K-5 school in Joliet, Illinois, run under Joliet PSD 86, caters to 635 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Sator Sanchez Elem School sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

Sator Sanchez Elem School is one of 20 schools operated by Joliet PSD 86, a district that caters to 9,333 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Sator Sanchez Elem School lists that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Will County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sator Sanchez Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.0%, the actual is 13.9%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Will County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Sator Sanchez Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Forest Park Individual Ed School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sator Sanchez Elem School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.4%.

Sator Sanchez Elem School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sator Sanchez Elem School has fell 19%, going from 784 students in 2018 to 635 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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