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Enrollment
508
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006497
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School
2916 W 47th St, Chicago, IL 60632 · (773) 321-2200 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% 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.
- 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
14.1:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
473 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 | 38 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 60 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 37% smaller than its 8th grade class (60).
Student demographics
2%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
24.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
16.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.3% | 16.4% |
| 2023-24 | 19.4% | 8.1% |
% 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
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 - Officer Marquez Elementary School
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School this school | 508 | 93.1% | 19.6% |
| Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elementary School Chicago | 465 | 93.1% | 19.6% |
| Zapata Elementary Academy Chicago | 524 | 91.0% | 28.7% |
| Hedges Elementary School Chicago | 502 | 95.6% | 17.0% |
| Whitney Elementary School Chicago | 559 | 94.6% | 22.2% |
| Columbus West Elementary School Cicero | 534 | 90.4% | 28.1% |
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 - Officer Marquez Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #1,623 of 1,925 | #576 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.4% | #1,697 of 2,077 ▲ 20 | #584 of 829 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #1,828 of 2,077 ▼ 240 | #710 of 829 ▼ 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #526 of 2,419 | #256 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,283 of 2,035 | #572 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.4% | #2,035 of 2,042 | #815 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.1% | #205 of 2,132 | #149 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #831 of 1,461 | #429 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
508
-46 (-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 | 508 | 36 | 14.1:1 | 93% (473) |
| 2023-24 | 517 | 33 | 15.7:1 | 96% (497) |
| 2022-23 | 523 | 33 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 554 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 29 | 19.9:1 | 94% (543) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (576 to 508); teachers up 24% (29 to 36).
About Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, reachable at (773) 321-2200. The school's 508 students are in kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 33% higher than the average for elementary schools in Illinois, which is about 381.
Enrollment across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 totals 324,396 students.
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 99% Hispanic. That compares with about 27% Hispanic among all Cook County residents. Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School has a diversity index of 2%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The teaching staff at Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 14.1:1. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is about 13.9:1. About 93% of students, or 473, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 27 points lower.
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 25% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is 1.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (19.6% versus 17.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Illinois.
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is located in Cook County, where median household income is about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is one of 1,406 public schools in Cook County, which together enroll about 697,934 students.
The closest other public school is Noble St Chtr - Mansueto, less than a tenth of a mile away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 19.6% is below the 28.3% average for nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is run as a public charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 554 to 508.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. 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
- Noble St Chtr - Mansueto0.1 mi · 1,106
- Gunsaulus Elementary Scholastic Academy0.3 mi · 658
- Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elementary School0.4 mi · 465
- Shields Middle School0.4 mi · 330
- Columbia Explorers Elementary Academy0.4 mi · 718
- Acero Chtr - Rufino Tamayo Elementary School0.6 mi · 266
Frequently asked questions
About Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School?
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School enrolls approximately 508 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School serve?
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School serves grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School have?
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School?
Student demographics at Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School are roughly 0% White, 99% Hispanic, 1% Black.
What district is Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School in?
Acero Chtr - Officer Marquez Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.