Enrollment
305
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FLOSSMOOR SD 161·NCES 171542001851
Serena Hills Elementary School
255 Pleasant Dr, Chicago Heights, IL 60411 · (708) 647-7300 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 53% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
225 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Serena Hills Elementary School→Parker Junior High School
Based on grade levels within Flossmoor SD 161. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
47.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
28.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.9% | 28.4% |
| 2023-24 | 42.4% | 18.6% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Serena Hills Elementary School
Serena Hills Elementary School's state test result (36.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serena Hills Elementary School this school | 305 | 73.8% | 36.5% |
| Morton Elementary Career Academy Chicago | 268 | 75.7% | 21.8% |
| Libby Elementary School Chicago | 275 | 76.0% | 19.3% |
| Bright Elementary School Chicago | 236 | 72.0% | 12.9% |
| Sieden Prairie Elementary School Matteson | 279 | 82.1% | 21.4% |
| Shoesmith Elementary School Chicago | 294 | 71.8% | 23.8% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Serena Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #1,043 of 1,925 | #294 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #1,340 of 2,077 ▼ 94 | #412 of 829 ▼ 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #1,072 of 2,077 ▼ 348 | #351 of 829 ▼ 113 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #1,512 of 2,419 | #626 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #750 of 2,035 | #357 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.3% | #535 of 2,042 | #204 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.8% | #660 of 2,132 | #423 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.4% | #739 of 1,461 | #392 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
305
-29 (-9%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 380
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 305 | 24.3 | 12.6:1 | 74% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 319 | 25.3 | 12.6:1 | 68% (218) |
| 2022-23 | 326 | 27.3 | 12.0:1 | 71% (231) |
| 2020-21 | 334 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 352 | 27 | 13.0:1 | 68% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 359 | 27 | 13.3:1 | 69% (247) |
| 2010-11 | 369 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 44% (162) |
| 2000-01 | 422 | 26 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 380 | 21 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Serena Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (352 to 305); teachers down 10% (27 to 24.3).
About Serena Hills Elementary School
Serena Hills Elementary School is an elementary school in Chicago Heights, Illinois, reachable at (708) 647-7300. The school has 305 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Flossmoor SD 161 is responsible for 5 schools, Serena Hills Elementary School included, with 2,302 students in all.
Of every 100 students at Serena Hills Elementary School, about 51 are Black. The school is also 34% Hispanic, 8% White, and 7% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 22%. The diversity index for Serena Hills Elementary School is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Serena Hills Elementary School has 24.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 1.3 students per teacher. At Serena Hills Elementary School, 74% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Serena Hills Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 53% of Illinois public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Serena Hills Elementary School is 7.6 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 36.5% actual, 28.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
In the wider Cook County area, median household income comes to about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
Serena Hills Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Greenbriar Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. The five-mile area around Serena Hills Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Serena Hills Elementary School's average proficiency of 36.5% compares with 38.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 9%.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Flossmoor SD 161
- Parker Junior High SchoolMiddle · 822 students
- Western Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Flossmoor Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 357 students
- Heather Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 319 students
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- Bloom High SchoolHigh · 1,823 students
- Bloom Trail High SchoolHigh · 1,218 students
- Barack Obama School of LdershipMiddle · 367 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Washington-McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
Nearby schools
- Greenbriar Elementary School0.7 mi · 174
- Winston Churchill School0.9 mi · 572
- Bloom High School1.3 mi · 1,823
- Western Avenue Elementary School1.4 mi · 499
- Willow School1.5 mi · 603
- Kennedy Elementary School1.5 mi · 193
Frequently asked questions
About Serena Hills Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Serena Hills Elementary School?
Serena Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 305 students in grades KG-05.
Is Serena Hills Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Serena Hills Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Serena Hills Elementary School have?
Serena Hills Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Serena Hills Elementary School?
Student demographics at Serena Hills Elementary School are roughly 8% White, 34% Hispanic, 51% Black, 7% Two or more.
What district is Serena Hills Elementary School in?
Serena Hills Elementary School is part of Flossmoor SD 161.
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