Wentworth Intermediate School

Located at 530 Superior Ave, in Calumet City, Illinois, Wentworth Intermediate School is a cozy primary school that enrolls 315 students (grades 3 through 5), part of Calumet City SD 155.

Across the 3 schools in Calumet City SD 155 (966 students total), Wentworth Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wentworth Intermediate School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 37% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Wentworth Intermediate School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.4%; actual is 14.7%, a gap of -20.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Wentworth Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Wentworth Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wentworth Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Wentworth Intermediate School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.5%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wentworth Intermediate School has declined 11%, going from 355 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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