Enrollment
387
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001071
Ashe Elementary School
8505 S Ingleside Ave, Chicago, IL 60619 · (773) 535-3550 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL387 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
366 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 | 34 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 22% larger than its 8th grade class (36).
Student demographics
32%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
Ashe Elementary School→Harlan Community 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
24.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.9pp since 2023
Math
3.1%
IL avg 37.9% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 3 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.6% | 3.1% |
| 2023-24 | 12.7% | 4.1% |
% 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
13.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Ashe Elementary School
Ashe Elementary School's state test result (13.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashe Elementary School this school | 387 | 94.6% | 13.0% |
| Mae Jemison School Hazel Crest | 368 | 94.8% | 12.4% |
| Metcalfe Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 354 | 95.5% | 14.2% |
| Curtis Elementary School Chicago | 356 | 97.5% | 9.4% |
| Leland Elementary School Chicago | 344 | 95.6% | 10.4% |
| Burke Elementary School Chicago | 323 | 96.0% | 10.0% |
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 Ashe Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #1,812 of 1,925 | #699 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 3.1% | #2,065 of 2,077 ▼ 152 | #820 of 829 ▼ 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #1,817 of 2,077 ▲ 27 | #700 of 829 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 387 | #1,062 of 2,419 | #449 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,748 of 2,035 | #728 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.9% | #1,352 of 2,042 | #505 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.6% | #168 of 2,132 | #126 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.3% | #108 of 615 | #28 of 186 |
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
387
+46 (+13%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 654
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 | 387 | 24 | 16.1:1 | 95% (366) |
| 2023-24 | 365 | 22 | 16.6:1 | 96% (351) |
| 2022-23 | 364 | 23 | 15.8:1 | 84% (307) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 319 | 15.5 | 20.6:1 | 97% (308) |
| 2015-16 | 319 | 19 | 16.8:1 | 98% (313) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | 23 | 20.6:1 | 80% (378) |
| 2000-01 | 798 | 36 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 654 | 30 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ashe Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (319 to 387); teachers up 55% (15.5 to 24).
About Ashe Elementary School
Ashe Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It had 387 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 8.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students, and its 622 schools include Ashe Elementary School.
The share of Black students at Ashe Elementary School is 81%. Other groups make up 18% Hispanic. Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Ashe Elementary School scores 32%.
Classroom staffing at Ashe Elementary School totals 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Ashe Elementary School is about 95%. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Ashe Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Illinois schools: 13.0% actual against 16.9% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Cook County show that the median household earns about $83,498 a year, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Ashe Elementary School.
Pirie Elementary Fine Arts & Academic C sits about 0.4 miles from Ashe Elementary School. Ashe Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 24.2% proficiency; Ashe Elementary School posts 13.0%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 46 students, from 341 to 387.
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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
- Pirie Elementary Fine Arts & Academic C0.4 mi · 216
- Dixon Elementary School0.5 mi · 412
- CICS - Avalon/South Shore0.7 mi · 469
- McDowell Elementary School0.7 mi · 112
- YCCS Chtr - Chatham0.7 mi · 104
- Avalon Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 225
Frequently asked questions
About Ashe Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ashe Elementary School?
Ashe Elementary School enrolls approximately 387 students in grades PK-08.
Is Ashe Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ashe Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Ashe Elementary School have?
Ashe Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
How diverse is Ashe Elementary School?
Ashe Elementary School reports a student body of 0% White, 18% Hispanic, 81% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Ashe Elementary School in?
Ashe Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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