Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School

Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School, a medium-sized elementary-level community in Lombard, Illinois, part of Lombard SD 44, enrolls 381 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Lombard SD 44, which oversees 8 schools and 2,989 students, Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 14% of students at Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of -12.9 points.

In the area at large, DuPage County reports that the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Madison Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School. On composite proficiency, Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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