Enrollment
224
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006521
Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps
2510 W Cortez St, Chicago, IL 60622 · (312) 455-5410 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL224 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
12.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
199 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 16 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 30 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 30 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (23) is 23% smaller than its 8th grade class (30).
Student demographics
20%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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
34.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.8pp since 2023
Math
23.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +12.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.3% | 23.1% |
| 2023-24 | 25.5% | 10.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps
Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps's state test result (28.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps this school | 224 | 88.8% | 28.0% |
| Telpochcalli Elementary School Chicago | 209 | 87.1% | 23.1% |
| Pilsen Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 217 | 92.2% | 16.3% |
| Acero Chtr - Bartolome de las Chicago | 225 | 88.4% | 16.1% |
| DePue Elementary School DePue | 232 | 89.2% | 14.3% |
| Sunny Hill Elementary School Carpentersville | 245 | 87.8% | 30.9% |
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 Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #1,340 of 1,925 | #435 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #1,515 of 2,077 ▲ 58 | #495 of 829 ▲ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #1,542 of 2,077 ▼ 183 | #553 of 829 ▼ 76 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 224 | #1,956 of 2,419 | #794 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #699 of 2,035 | #331 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.4% | #1,609 of 2,042 | #603 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.8% | #312 of 2,132 | #223 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #416 of 1,461 | #248 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
224
-25 (-10%) vs 2020
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 | 224 | 18 | 12.4:1 | 89% (199) |
| 2023-24 | 223 | 18 | 12.4:1 | 90% (201) |
| 2022-23 | 219 | 19 | 11.5:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 249 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 283 | 18 | 15.7:1 | 93% (264) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (283 to 224); teachers unchanged (18 to 18).
About Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps
Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps is a low-enrollment elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The school had 224 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Illinois) has about 381 students.
Federal data list 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 324,396 students enrolled.
At Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps, Hispanic students make up 89% of the student body. Other students are 8% Black. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 27% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 20%.
Teachers at Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps total 18 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.4:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 89%. Among public schools in Cook County, the average eligibility rate is 66%.
The allk12 Grade for Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps is C+. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 43% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps is 7.8 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
In Cook County (population about 5,182,090), median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 1,406 public schools operate in Cook County, serving about 697,934 students.
Nearby, Chopin Elementary School is about 0.2 miles away. Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps ranks 3rd on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
The student count in 2024-25 was 224, 10% below the 249 of 2020-21.
The Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- Chopin Elementary School0.2 mi · 323
- Clemente Community Academy High School0.3 mi · 745
- Chicago HS for the Arts0.3 mi · 578
- YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican0.3 mi · 184
- De Diego Elementary Community Academy0.4 mi · 511
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Elementary0.4 mi · 260
Frequently asked questions
About Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago CmpsHow large is Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps?
Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps enrolls approximately 224 students in grades KG-08.
Is Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps an elementary, middle, or high school?
Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps?
Approximately 12.4:1 students per teacher at Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps.
What is the student diversity at Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps?
Student demographics at Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps are roughly 1% White, 89% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian.
What district is Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps in?
Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.