Walden Elem School

Walden Elem School operates as a mid-sized primary school in Deerfield, Illinois, overseen by Deerfield SD 109. Current enrollment sits at 445 students spanning grades K through 5.

Deerfield SD 109 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,714 students; Walden Elem School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Walden Elem School reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 61% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Walden Elem School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lake County) shows that median household earnings sit near $110,416, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which Walden Elem School is one.

Kipling Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walden Elem School.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Walden Elem School's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 471 (now 445). Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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