Serena Hills Elem School

As a modestly sized elementary-level community in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Serena Hills Elem School serves 305 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Flossmoor SD 161.

Serena Hills Elem School is one of 5 schools operated by Flossmoor SD 161, a district that works with 2,302 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Serena Hills Elem School reports that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 34% Hispanic, 8% White, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Serena Hills Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Serena Hills Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Greenbriar Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Serena Hills Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.6%.

Serena Hills Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Serena Hills Elem School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 305).

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