Enrollment
272
Elementary
DISTRICT 343 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WORTH SD 127·NCES 174338004342
Worthwoods Elementary School
11000 S Oketo Ave, Worth, IL 60482 · (708) 448-2802 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
14.3:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
269 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 18 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
Worthwoods Elementary School→Worth Jr High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Worth SD 127. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
44.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
29.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +12.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 45 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.6% | 29.7% |
| 2023-24 | 37.5% | 17.6% |
% 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
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 14% 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 22 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 Worthwoods Elementary School
Worthwoods Elementary School's state test result (36.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worthwoods Elementary School this school | 272 | 98.9% | 36.2% |
| Worth Elementary School Worth | 413 | 98.5% | 34.0% |
| Cobden Elementary School Cobden | 223 | 92.8% | 46.9% |
| Ledgewood Elementary School Roscoe | 375 | 99.2% | N/A |
| Bowlesburg Elementary School Silvis | 324 | 96.9% | 27.5% |
| Schiller Elementary School Centralia | 270 | 98.9% | 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 Worthwoods Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #1,054 of 1,925 | #299 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #1,296 of 2,077 ▼ 9 | #399 of 829 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #1,195 of 2,077 ▼ 317 | #394 of 829 ▼ 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #1,701 of 2,419 | #700 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,336 of 2,035 | #599 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.8% | #721 of 2,042 | #252 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.9% | #47 of 2,132 | #29 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #908 of 1,461 | #460 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
272
-31 (-10%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 236
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 | 272 | 19 | 14.3:1 | 99% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 303 | 20.4 | 14.8:1 | 77% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 19.2 | 14.9:1 | 72% (206) |
| 2020-21 | 303 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 303 | 17 | 17.8:1 | 69% (209) |
| 2015-16 | 301 | 16 | 18.8:1 | 44% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 251 | 18 | 13.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 270 | 19 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 236 | 16 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Worthwoods Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (303 to 272); teachers up 12% (17 to 19).
About Worthwoods Elementary School
Worthwoods Elementary School is a small elementary school with its address in Worth, Illinois. The school reports 272 students in kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students.
Worth SD 127 runs 3 schools with a combined 1,015 students. Worthwoods Elementary School is one of them.
A majority of students at Worthwoods Elementary School, 59%, are White. Next come 29% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 44% White. Worthwoods Elementary School has a diversity index of 56%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers at Worthwoods Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.3:1. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is about 13.9:1. The lunch program counts 99% of students at Worthwoods Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
allk12 grades Worthwoods Elementary School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Worthwoods Elementary School is 14.4%. It actually posts 36.2%, which is 21.8 points higher and in the top 10% of Illinois schools.
Cook County has about 5,182,090 residents, and median household income is about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 1,406 public schools in Cook County, with a combined enrollment of about 697,934.
Nearest public school: Worth Jr High School, about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Worthwoods Elementary School places 4th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
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, Worthwoods Elementary School went from 303 students to 272.
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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 Worth SD 127
- Worth Elementary SchoolElementary · 413 students
- Worth Jr High SchoolMiddle · 330 students
- Worthridge SchoolElementary
Other schools in Worth
- Worth Elementary SchoolElementary · 413 students
- Worth Jr High SchoolMiddle · 330 students
- Regl Inst Scholastic ExcellenceHigh
- Worthridge SchoolElementary
Nearby schools
- Worth Jr High School0.7 mi · 330
- Worth Elementary School0.8 mi · 413
- Amos Alonzo Stagg High School0.8 mi · 2,560
- Dr Kenneth M Sorrick School1.0 mi · 449
- Elden D Finley Jr High School1.6 mi · 405
- Ridge Central Elementary School1.6 mi · 508
Frequently asked questions
About Worthwoods Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Worthwoods Elementary School?
Worthwoods Elementary School enrolls approximately 272 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Worthwoods Elementary School serve?
Worthwoods Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Worthwoods Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Worthwoods Elementary School is approximately 14.3:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Worthwoods Elementary School?
At Worthwoods Elementary School, the student body is approximately 59% White, 29% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Worthwoods Elementary School public or private?
Worthwoods Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Worth SD 127.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.