Spencer Trail

Spencer Trail serves students in New Lenox, Illinois, as a medium-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 367 students, from kindergarten.

Spencer Trail is run by New Lenox SD 122, whose 12 schools enroll 4,956 students.

White students make up a majority at Spencer Trail, at 79%. The next largest groups are 15% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, and 2% Black. In Will County overall, about 62% of residents are White. The school's diversity index is 36%, meaning two students picked at random have a 36% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Teachers at the school number 17 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 21.6:1. This ratio sits 7.7 above the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois.

Census Bureau estimates for Will County show that the median household income is $109,984, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 209 public schools in Will County, enrolling about 113,008 students in all.

The closest public school to Spencer Trail is Spencer Crossing, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Spencer Trail is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment dropped 9% from its 2020-21 level of 405.

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