Enrollment
255
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001001
Armour Elementary School
950 W 33rd Pl, Chicago, IL 60608 · (773) 535-4530 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL255 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
9.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
197 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 24 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 27 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 22 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 30 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (30).
Student demographics
52%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Armour Elementary School→Tilden Career Communty Academy High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
60.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +17.1pp since 2023
Math
28.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.1% | 28.2% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 16.8% |
% 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
39.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Armour Elementary School
Armour Elementary School's state test result (39.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armour Elementary School this school | 255 | 77.3% | 39.6% |
| Army Trail Elementary School Addison | 258 | 79.1% | 23.4% |
| Walsh Elementary School Chicago | 245 | 80.4% | 33.4% |
| Rupley Elementary School Elk Grove Village | 280 | 76.1% | 23.8% |
| Ardmore Elementary School Addison | 230 | 79.6% | 26.4% |
| Adm Richard E Byrd Elementary School Elk Grove Village | 301 | 80.1% | 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 Armour Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #925 of 1,925 | #249 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #1,347 of 2,077 ▼ 22 | #416 of 829 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #676 of 2,077 ▲ 23 | #221 of 829 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 255 | #1,801 of 2,419 | #740 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #56 of 2,035 | #37 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.6% | #868 of 2,042 | #314 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.3% | #574 of 2,132 | #382 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #952 of 1,461 | #475 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
255
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 615
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 | 255 | 28 | 9.1:1 | 77% (197) |
| 2023-24 | 238 | 23.5 | 10.1:1 | 83% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 246 | 27 | 9.1:1 | 83% (204) |
| 2020-21 | 256 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 281 | 13.4 | 20.9:1 | 89% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 293 | 16 | 18.3:1 | 92% (269) |
| 2010-11 | 330 | 19 | 17.4:1 | 98% (325) |
| 2000-01 | 635 | 31 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 615 | 36 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Armour Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (281 to 255); teachers up 109% (13.4 to 28).
About Armour Elementary School
Armour Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The school offers pre-K through 8 and enrolls 255 students. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Armour Elementary School is a school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The district has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
Of every 100 students at Armour Elementary School, about 67 are Hispanic. It is also 13% White, 8% Black, 7% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Cook County's residents are about 27% Hispanic, 41 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Armour Elementary School scores 52%.
Armour Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 4.8 students per teacher. At Armour Elementary School, 77% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 11 points above the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Armour Elementary School outscored 64%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 26.9% at Armour Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 39.6%.
The school is in Cook County, where the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Armour Elementary School shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Holden Elementary School, is about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Armour Elementary School is 5th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 256 to 255.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Armour Elementary School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
Other Armour Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Armour Elementary. Armour Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Armour Elementary - 02Armour, SD · 119 students
Nearby schools
- Holden Elementary School0.4 mi · 407
- Minnie Minoso Academy0.5 mi · 304
- Healy Elementary School0.6 mi · 1,194
- Sheridan Elementary Math & Science Academy0.8 mi · 528
- Evergreen Academy Elementary School1.0 mi · 191
- Air Force Academy High School1.0 mi · 131
Frequently asked questions
About Armour Elementary SchoolHow large is Armour Elementary School?
Armour Elementary School enrolls approximately 255 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Armour Elementary School serve?
Armour Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does Armour Elementary School have?
Armour Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Armour Elementary School?
Student demographics at Armour Elementary School are roughly 13% White, 67% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Armour Elementary School in?
Armour Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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