Warren Park School

Warren Park School is one of the substantial elementary-level communitys in Cicero, Illinois, operated by Cicero SD 99, with 695 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Warren Park School sits 82% above that benchmark.

Warren Park School is one of 15 schools operated by Cicero SD 99, a district that works with 8,664 students overall.

On demographics, Warren Park School logs that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic; the rest reads as 3% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Warren Park School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Warren Park School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Warren Park School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.8%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of +12.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Warren Park School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Daniel Burnham Elem School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Warren Park School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Warren Park School has changed only slightly, going from 710 students in 2018 to 695 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 89% to 96%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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