William Beye Elem School

William Beye Elem School is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in Oak Park, Illinois, part of Oak Park ESD 97, works with 397 students in grades K through 5.

Oak Park ESD 97 comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,560 students; William Beye Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, William Beye Elem School reports that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 15% Hispanic, 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, William Beye Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.3%; this one delivers 67.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which William Beye Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Park & River Forest High Sch, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around William Beye Elem School. On composite proficiency, William Beye Elem School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

William Beye Elem School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. William Beye Elem School's enrollment has ticked up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 397). Black enrollment moved from 22% to 15% across the same window.

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