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Enrollment
1,304
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001181
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies
2110 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL 60645 · (773) 534-2150 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,304 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Illinois public elementary schools
- BTest 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
14.5:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
1,099 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 90 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 121 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 137 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 141 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 143 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 152 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 135 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 125 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 142 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 18% smaller than its 8th grade class (142).
Student demographics
73%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
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies→Sullivan 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
56.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.3pp since 2023
Math
44.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.1% | 44.3% |
| 2023-24 | 42.8% | 28.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
46.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies's state test result (46.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies this school | 1,304 | 84.3% | 46.6% |
| Hayt Elementary School Chicago | 851 | 82.0% | 31.1% |
| Swift Elementary Specialty School Chicago | 533 | 86.7% | 28.3% |
| West Ridge Elementary School Chicago | 683 | 84.8% | 33.1% |
| Goudy Technology Academy Chicago | 491 | 82.3% | 40.8% |
| Volta Elementary School Chicago | 739 | 90.8% | 18.6% |
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 Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #692 of 1,925 | #186 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #841 of 2,077 ▲ 9 | #249 of 829 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #800 of 2,077 ▼ 94 | #252 of 829 ▼ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,304 | #3 of 2,419 | #2 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,396 of 2,035 | #621 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.3% | #48 of 2,042 | #24 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.3% | #422 of 2,132 | #295 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.1% | #1,025 of 1,461 | #501 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
1,304
+42 (+3%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 966
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 | 1,304 | 90 | 14.5:1 | 84% (1,099) |
| 2023-24 | 1,261 | 85 | 14.8:1 | 86% (1,081) |
| 2022-23 | 1,248 | 83.5 | 14.9:1 | 86% (1,072) |
| 2020-21 | 1,262 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,419 | 73.6 | 19.3:1 | 91% (1,290) |
| 2015-16 | 1,429 | 76 | 18.8:1 | 92% (1,308) |
| 2010-11 | 1,427 | 67 | 21.3:1 | 91% (1,296) |
| 2000-01 | 1,315 | 70 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 966 | 48 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (1,419 to 1,304); teachers up 22% (73.6 to 90).
About Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies is a public large elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The school offers pre-K through 8 and enrolls 1,304 students. The school is 242% above the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students, and its 622 schools include Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies.
About 33% of students at Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies are Hispanic, the largest single group. The school is also 29% Black, 25% Asian, 9% White, and 3% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 73%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1. The school has 90 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Federal data show 84% of students (1,099) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 18 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies lands at A-, ahead of 78% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 23.7 points (46.6% versus 22.9%), a top-10% result in Illinois on BeatsExpectations.
In Cook County, home to about 5,182,090 people, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies is about 0.4 miles from Acero Chtr Sor Juana Ines de la, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a gain of 42 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The discussion board for Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Sor Juana Ines de la0.4 mi · 432
- Jordan Elementary Community School0.6 mi · 487
- Chicago Math & Sci Elementary Charter0.6 mi · 623
- New Field Elementary School0.6 mi · 541
- Rogers Elementary School0.7 mi · 790
- Field Elementary School0.8 mi · 151
Frequently asked questions
About Armstrong G Elementary IntL StudiesHow many students attend Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies?
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies enrolls approximately 1,304 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies serve?
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies?
Approximately 14.5:1 students per teacher at Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies.
What is the student diversity at Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies?
Student demographics at Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies are roughly 9% White, 33% Hispanic, 29% Black, 25% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies in?
Armstrong G Elementary IntL Studies is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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