Sauk Elem School

Located at 4435 S Churchill Dr, in Richton Park, Illinois, Sauk Elem School is a compact middle school that instructs 281 students (grades 4 through 6), part of Matteson ESD 162. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Sauk Elem School sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

Matteson ESD 162 comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,405 students; Sauk Elem School is among them.

On demographics, Sauk Elem School lists that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Sauk Elem School records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sauk Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Sauk Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Southland College Prep Chtr HS, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sauk Elem School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 90% to 85% across the same window.

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