Enrollment
286
Elementary
DISTRICT 200 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO HEIGHTS SD 170·NCES 170996001227
Washington-McKinley Elementary School
25 W 16th Pl, Chicago Heights, IL 60411 · (708) 756-4843 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL286 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
281 students
DISTRICT 97% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
Washington-McKinley Elementary School→Chicago Heights Middle School
Based on grade levels within Chicago Heights SD 170. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
30.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
30.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.1% | 30.1% |
| 2023-24 | 26.6% | 21.9% |
% 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
14.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 15% 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 Washington-McKinley Elementary School
Washington-McKinley Elementary School's state test result (28.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington-McKinley Elementary School this school | 286 | 98.3% | 28.6% |
| Evelyn Alexander School North Chicago | 354 | 98.3% | 2.5% |
| Fairmont School Lockport | 300 | 99.0% | 31.7% |
| Steuben Elementary School Kankakee | 234 | 93.6% | 16.8% |
| Fulton Elementary School Chicago | 321 | 98.1% | 12.7% |
| Green Bay Early Childhood Center North Chicago | 211 | 100.0% | N/A |
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 Washington-McKinley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #1,320 of 1,925 | #423 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #1,278 of 2,077 ▼ 174 | #394 of 829 ▼ 66 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #1,665 of 2,077 ▼ 357 | #606 of 829 ▼ 151 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 286 | #1,625 of 2,419 | #667 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #380 of 2,035 | #203 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.6% | #990 of 2,042 | #361 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.3% | #62 of 2,132 | #42 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -53.5% | #10 of 1,461 | #7 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
286
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-74% since 1990-91, when it was 1,089
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 | 286 | 25 | 11.4:1 | 98% (281) |
| 2023-24 | 279 | 25 | 11.2:1 | 99% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 274 | 24 | 11.4:1 | 99% (271) |
| 2020-21 | 285 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 615 | 65 | 9.5:1 | 100% (613) |
| 2015-16 | 616 | 60 | 10.3:1 | 97% (600) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 44 | 12.2:1 | 99% (534) |
| 2000-01 | 340 | 21 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,089 | 65 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Washington-McKinley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 53% (615 to 286); teachers down 62% (65 to 25).
About Washington-McKinley Elementary School
Washington-McKinley Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in Chicago Heights, Illinois. The latest federal count shows 286 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students, so this school is 25% smaller than average.
Washington-McKinley Elementary School reports to Chicago Heights SD 170, which has 10 schools and 2,674 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Washington-McKinley Elementary School, at 67%. The next largest groups are 29% Black and 4% White. In Cook County overall, about 27% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.4:1, with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is lower than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Washington-McKinley Elementary School is 98%. It compares with 66% for public schools in Cook County.
allk12 grades Washington-McKinley Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Washington-McKinley Elementary School is +13.8 points, in the top 10% of Illinois. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 28.6%, and the predicted rate is 14.8%.
County data help place the school in context: in Cook County, the median household income is $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Cook County is home to 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 public school students.
Nearest public school: Lincoln Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 31.1%; Washington-McKinley Elementary School's is 28.6%, ranking 6th of 9.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 286, starting from 285.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Chicago Heights SD 170
- Chicago Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 872 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
- Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 193 students
- Greenbriar Elementary SchoolElementary · 174 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 160 students
Other schools in Chicago Heights
- 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
- Serena Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.6 mi · 84
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.6 mi · 353
- Chicago Heights Middle School0.7 mi · 872
- Garfield Elementary School0.7 mi · 248
- Jefferson Elementary School0.8 mi · 157
- U S Grant Elementary School0.9 mi · 147
Frequently asked questions
About Washington-McKinley Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Washington-McKinley Elementary School?
Washington-McKinley Elementary School enrolls approximately 286 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Washington-McKinley Elementary School serve?
Washington-McKinley Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Washington-McKinley Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Washington-McKinley Elementary School is approximately 11.4:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Washington-McKinley Elementary School?
Student demographics at Washington-McKinley Elementary School are roughly 4% White, 67% Hispanic, 29% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Washington-McKinley Elementary School?
Washington-McKinley Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Heights SD 170 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.