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Enrollment
528
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006522
Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress
4248 W 47th St, Chicago, IL 60632 · (773) 579-3475 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL528 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
18.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
467 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 | 29 | 5% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 85 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 66% smaller than its 8th grade class (85).
Student demographics
4%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
26.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
10.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.6% | 10.1% |
| 2023-24 | 20.3% | 9.5% |
% 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
18.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% 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 Network - PFC Torress
Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress's state test result (18.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress this school | 528 | 88.4% | 18.0% |
| Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar Chicago | 528 | 88.4% | 28.6% |
| Acero Chtr - SPC Zizumbo Elementary School Chicago | 532 | 86.3% | 26.5% |
| Columbus West Elementary School Cicero | 534 | 90.4% | 28.1% |
| Zapata Elementary Academy Chicago | 524 | 91.0% | 28.7% |
| Davis N Elementary School Chicago | 540 | 87.6% | 10.6% |
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 Network - PFC Torress ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #1,677 of 1,925 | #614 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.1% | #1,898 of 2,077 ▼ 254 | #709 of 829 ▼ 138 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #1,755 of 2,077 ▼ 199 | #662 of 829 ▼ 90 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 528 | #440 of 2,419 | #220 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #1,949 of 2,035 | #787 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.7% | #2,024 of 2,042 | #809 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.4% | #324 of 2,132 | #231 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #954 of 1,461 | #477 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
528
-47 (-8%) 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 | 528 | 28.5 | 18.5:1 | 88% (467) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 29 | 18.6:1 | 91% (490) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 32.5 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 575 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 29 | 20.1:1 | 90% (525) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (582 to 528); teachers down 2% (29 to 28.5).
About Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress
Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress serves students in Chicago, Illinois, as a mid-sized elementary school. It reported 528 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 39% larger than average.
Across its 622 schools, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students. Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress is one of those schools.
The share of students at Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress who are Hispanic is 98%. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 27% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 4, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.5:1. Elementary schools in Illinois have an average ratio of 13.9:1. About 88% of students at Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cook County average 66%.
On the allk12 Grade, Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress lands at C-, ahead of 15% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Test results at Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress are 2.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (18.0% actual, 20.4% predicted).
In the surrounding county, Cook County, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress, Cook County has 1,406 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress is closest to Acero Chtr Netrk - Major Garcia, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress ranks 5th of 9 on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress's location as City: Large. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
In 2020-21, Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress enrolled 575 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 528.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- Acero Chtr Netrk - Major Garcia0.0 mi · 666
- Acero Chtr - SPC Zizumbo Elementary School0.0 mi · 532
- Edwards Elementary School0.3 mi · 1,209
- YCCS-Youth Connection Leadership0.6 mi · 100
- Curie Metropolitan High School0.6 mi · 3,099
- Hearst Elementary School0.8 mi · 285
Frequently asked questions
About Acero Chtr Network - PFC TorressHow many students attend Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress?
Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress enrolls approximately 528 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress serve?
Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress is approximately 18.5:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress?
Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress reports a student body of 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 1% Black.
Who oversees Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress?
Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.