Enrollment
130
Elementary
DISTRICT 247 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMMIT SD 104·NCES 170405000092
W W Walker Elementary School
7735 W 66th Pl, Bedford Park, IL 60501 · (708) 458-7150 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL130 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
8.0:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
129 students
DISTRICT 98% · 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 | 19 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 15 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 18 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 20 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 23% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (19) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (28).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
W W Walker Elementary School→Heritage Middle School
Based on grade levels within Summit SD 104. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
39.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +21.7pp since 2023
Math
26.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.7% | 26.4% |
| 2023-24 | 18.0% | 19.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 14% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 W W Walker Elementary School
W W Walker Elementary School's state test result (28.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| W W Walker Elementary School this school | 130 | 99.2% | 28.6% |
| U S Grant Elementary School South Chicago Heights | 147 | 95.2% | 37.8% |
| Dr Donald Wharton Elementary School Summit | 114 | 98.2% | 44.8% |
| Greenbriar Elementary School Chicago Heights | 174 | 98.3% | 44.8% |
| Turner Elementary School Crestwood | 148 | 96.6% | N/A |
| Walsh Elementary School Summit | 182 | 96.2% | 39.1% |
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 W W Walker Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #1,322 of 1,925 | #425 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #1,405 of 2,077 ▼ 204 | #439 of 829 ▼ 73 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #1,351 of 2,077 ▲ 295 | #462 of 829 ▲ 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 130 | #2,266 of 2,419 | #882 of 901 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.2% | #40 of 2,132 | #27 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -40.4% | #53 of 1,461 | #35 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
130
-56 (-30%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 163
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 | 130 | 16.3 | 8.0:1 | 99% (129) |
| 2023-24 | 103 | 13 | 7.9:1 | 51% (53) |
| 2022-23 | 168 | 18 | 9.3:1 | 44% (74) |
| 2020-21 | 186 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 218 | 17.3 | 12.6:1 | 62% (135) |
| 2015-16 | 201 | 15 | 13.4:1 | 46% (93) |
| 2010-11 | 231 | 13 | 17.8:1 | 74% (171) |
| 2000-01 | 211 | 13 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 163 | 14 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for W W Walker Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 40% (218 to 130); teachers down 6% (17.3 to 16.3).
About W W Walker Elementary School
In Bedford Park, Illinois, part of Cook County, W W Walker Elementary School is an elementary school. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 130 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average enrollment is about 381.
Summit SD 104 enrolls 1,435 students, and its 5 schools include W W Walker Elementary School.
The student body at W W Walker Elementary School is 73% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 15% White, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 44, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at W W Walker Elementary School comes to 16.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.0:1. Elementary schools in Illinois have an average ratio of 13.9:1. On the income side, 99% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
W W Walker Elementary School is a top-10% school in Illinois on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 14.2% with an actual 28.6%.
Census data for Cook County show the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting W W Walker Elementary School, Cook County has 1,406 public schools.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Dr Donald Wharton Elementary School, is the closest to W W Walker Elementary School. W W Walker Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, W W Walker Elementary School ranks 7th on proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 186 (2020-21) to 130 (2024-25).
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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 Summit SD 104
- Otis P Graves Elementary SchoolElementary · 562 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 447 students
- Walsh Elementary SchoolElementary · 182 students
- Dr Donald Wharton Elementary SchoolElementary · 114 students
Nearby schools
- Dr Donald Wharton Elementary School0.4 mi · 114
- Argo Community High School0.7 mi · 1,817
- Dore Elementary School0.8 mi · 745
- Otis P Graves Elementary School1.0 mi · 562
- Heritage Middle School1.0 mi · 447
- Robina Lyle Elementary School1.2 mi · 329
Frequently asked questions
About W W Walker Elementary SchoolHow large is W W Walker Elementary School?
W W Walker Elementary School enrolls approximately 130 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does W W Walker Elementary School serve?
W W Walker Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at W W Walker Elementary School?
Approximately 8.0:1 students per teacher at W W Walker Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at W W Walker Elementary School?
Student demographics at W W Walker Elementary School are roughly 15% White, 73% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees W W Walker Elementary School?
W W Walker Elementary School is overseen by Summit SD 104 in Cook County.
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