Whittier Primary School

Located at 1619 W Fredonia Ave, in Peoria, Illinois, Whittier Primary School is a mid-sized elementary campus that hosts 366 students (grades K through 4), overseen by Peoria SD 150.

Peoria SD 150 runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,312 students. Whittier Primary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Whittier Primary School logs that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% White, 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, Whittier Primary School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Peoria County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Whittier Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the area at large, Peoria County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,108 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Whittier Primary School is one of 81 public schools in Peoria County (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students).

Nearest neighbor: The Elise Ford Allen Academy, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Whittier Primary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 8.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 19%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 5% to 20% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the Whittier Primary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.