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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006035
Academy for Global Citizenship
4942 W 44Th St, Chicago, IL 60638 · (773) 582-1100 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% 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.
- FBeats 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
13.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
280 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 47 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 28% larger than its 8th grade class (47).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
37.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.8pp since 2023
Math
10.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.1% | 10.9% |
| 2023-24 | 20.3% | 5.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
23.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 38% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Academy for Global Citizenship
Academy for Global Citizenship's state test result (23.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy for Global Citizenship this school | 486 | 57.6% | 23.1% |
| Cicero West Elementary School Cicero | 557 | 57.1% | 26.8% |
| John Gates Elementary School Aurora | 427 | 60.4% | 16.0% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Maywood | 431 | 55.7% | 37.4% |
| Roy Elementary School Northlake | 545 | 59.4% | 35.1% |
| G N Dieterich Elementary School Aurora | 507 | 63.3% | 11.9% |
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 Academy for Global Citizenship ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #1,508 of 1,925 | #509 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.9% | #1,873 of 2,077 ▼ 36 | #691 of 829 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.1% | #1,446 of 2,077 ▲ 108 | #510 of 829 ▲ 60 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #604 of 2,419 | #293 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,191 of 2,035 | #529 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.2% | #1,745 of 2,042 | #662 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.6% | #1,079 of 2,132 | #558 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.3% | #461 of 615 | #142 of 186 |
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
486
+17 (+4%) vs 2020
+24200% since 2010-11, when it was 2
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 | 486 | 35 | 13.9:1 | 58% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 478 | 37 | 12.9:1 | 61% (291) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 35 | 13.2:1 | 65% (298) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 3.7 | 126.6:1 | 71% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 446 | 5 | 89.2:1 | 71% (318) |
| 2010-11 | 2 | 14 | 0.1:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Academy for Global Citizenship.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (466 to 486); teachers up 851% (3.7 to 35).
About Academy for Global Citizenship
Families in Chicago, Illinois, are served by Academy for Global Citizenship, a medium-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 8 attend, and enrollment is 486 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 serves 324,396 students across 622 schools.
About 92% of the student body at Academy for Global Citizenship is Hispanic. The remaining students are 2% White, 2% Black, and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Cook County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. Pick two students at random and there is a 15% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 35 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.9:1. That is close to the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Eligible students account for 58% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. For comparison, public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Academy for Global Citizenship is graded D by allk12, scoring above 8% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Academy for Global Citizenship scores 15.2 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 23.1%; the prediction is 38.3%.
Cook County has these Census figures: the median household income is $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cook County is home to 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 public school students.
Nearby, Hearst Elementary School is about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Academy for Global Citizenship's average proficiency of 23.1% compares with 28.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES assigns Academy for Global Citizenship the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Academy for Global Citizenship is run as a public charter school.
Enrollment has grown by 17 students since 2020-21, to 486.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Academy for Global Citizenship covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other schools in Chicago
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Nearby schools
- Hearst Elementary School0.3 mi · 285
- Acero Chtr - SPC Zizumbo Elementary School0.9 mi · 532
- Acero Chtr Netrk - Major Garcia0.9 mi · 666
- Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress0.9 mi · 528
- Charles J Sahs Elementary School1.0 mi · 262
- Drexel Elementary School1.1 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About Academy for Global CitizenshipWhat is the total enrollment at Academy for Global Citizenship?
Academy for Global Citizenship enrolls approximately 486 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Academy for Global Citizenship serve?
Academy for Global Citizenship serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Academy for Global Citizenship?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Academy for Global Citizenship is approximately 13.9:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Academy for Global Citizenship?
At Academy for Global Citizenship, the student body is approximately 2% White, 92% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Academy for Global Citizenship in?
Academy for Global Citizenship is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.