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Public school / Primary

Orrington Elem School

Evanston, Illinois

NCES ID
171446001797
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Orrington Elem School is a public primary school in Evanston, Illinois, run by Evanston CCSD 65. It enrols 250 students — the 72280th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

250students

72280th nationally, tied with 105

Teachers

27.0FTE

48484th nationally, tied with 2,306

Students per teacher

9.3students

6765th nationally, tied with 300

Free or reduced-price lunch

14.8%percent

80462nd nationally, tied with 71

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Evanston CCSD 65

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Haven Middle School695 students
  2. 2Nichols Middle School650 students
  3. 3Chute Middle School581 students
  4. 4Washington Elem School448 students
  5. 5Lincoln Elem School411 students
  6. 6Walker Elem School394 students
  7. 7Oakton Elem School393 students
  8. 8Dr Ml King Jr Literary&Fine Arts369 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−38.1%
  • Teachers+3.8%
  • Students per teacher−32.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−72.3%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.