Public school / Primary
Taft Primary School
Kankakee, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 172076002358
- District
- Kankakee SD 111
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Taft Primary School is a public primary school in Kankakee, Illinois, run by Kankakee SD 111. It enrols 354 students — the 57864th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.
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
354
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
16.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
84.2%
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.
Within Kankakee SD 111
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.
- 1Kankakee High School1,513 students
- 2Kankakee Junior High School560 students
- 3John Kennedy Middle Grade School543 students
- 4Proegler School438 students
- 5Lincoln Cltrl Ctr-Montessori Elem429 students
- 6Taft Primary School354 students
- 7King Middle Grade School344 students
- 8Mark Twain Primary School213 students
- Enrollment−12.4%
- Teachers−19.2%
- Students per teacher+23.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+57.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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