Public school / Primary
V H Nelson Elem School
Niles, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 171314001553
- District
- East Maine SD 63
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
V H Nelson Elem School is a public primary school in Niles, Illinois, run by East Maine SD 63. It enrols 447 students — the 44313th 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
447
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
12.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
59.7%
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 East Maine SD 63
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.
- 1Gemini Middle School1,075 students
- 2Apollo Elem School497 students
- 3Mark Twain Elem School479 students
- 4V H Nelson Elem School447 students
- 5Washington Elem School403 students
- 6Melzer School397 students
- 7Early Learning Center245 students
- Enrollment+10.6%
- Teachers+38.5%
- Students per teacher−9.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+11.8%
Where this sits
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