Addams Elem School

Addams Elem School is a mid-sized K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school enrolls 544 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Addams Elem School sits 43% above that benchmark.

Addams Elem School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that enrolls 324,396 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Addams Elem School reports that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% Black, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, Addams Elem School shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Addams Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.3%; this one delivers 36.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Addams Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sadlowski Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Addams Elem School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 24.6%.

Addams Elem School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Addams Elem School has shrank 24%, going from 714 students in 2018 to 544 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 96% to 92%. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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