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What's the one class at Audubon Elem School every student should take?
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Enrollment
606
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000581
Audubon Elementary School
3500 N Hoyne Ave, Chicago, IL 60618 · (773) 534-5470 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL606 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
55 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 | 162 | 27% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 41 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 50 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (50).
Student demographics
50%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
Audubon Elementary School→Lake View 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
86.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.5pp since 2023
Math
76.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +12.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.6% | 76.8% |
| 2023-24 | 76.1% | 64.0% |
% 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
79.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Audubon Elementary School
Audubon Elementary School's state test result (79.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audubon Elementary School this school | 606 | 9.1% | 79.1% |
| Blaine Elementary School Chicago | 639 | 10.3% | 79.7% |
| Hawthorne Elementary School Elmhurst | 568 | 9.5% | 77.8% |
| Coonley Elementary School Chicago | 723 | 10.7% | 76.5% |
| Mayer Elementary School Chicago | 707 | 8.8% | 74.6% |
| Elmwood Elementary School Naperville | 726 | 13.6% | 69.1% |
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 Audubon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.1% | #33 of 1,925 | #14 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.8% | #114 of 2,077 ▼ 4 | #41 of 829 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.6% | #46 of 2,077 ▼ 6 | #21 of 829 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 606 | #267 of 2,419 | #150 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #1,102 of 2,035 | #494 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.2% | #924 of 2,042 | #336 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.1% | #2,094 of 2,132 | #793 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.9% | #396 of 615 | #120 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
606
+78 (+15%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 595
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 | 606 | 44.5 | 13.6:1 | 9% (55) |
| 2023-24 | 610 | 45.5 | 13.4:1 | 12% (73) |
| 2022-23 | 577 | 44 | 13.1:1 | 12% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 528 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 33.4 | 17.1:1 | 20% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 570 | 33 | 17.3:1 | 25% (143) |
| 2010-11 | 532 | 32 | 16.6:1 | 41% (219) |
| 2000-01 | 489 | 33 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 595 | 33 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Audubon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (572 to 606); teachers up 33% (33.4 to 44.5).
About Audubon Elementary School
Audubon Elementary School is a large elementary school based in Chicago, Illinois. The school serves 606 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 includes 622 schools. Together they enroll 324,396 students.
At Audubon Elementary School, White students make up 68% of the student body. The next largest groups are 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 6% Asian. The school's White share is 24 points above the 44% share among Cook County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 50% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1 at Audubon Elementary School, with 44.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois fairly closely. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 9% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
In Illinois, Audubon Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 79.1% actual against a predicted 66.3%.
Federal survey data for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County is home to 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 public school students.
Bell Elementary School is the public school closest to Audubon Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Audubon Elementary School ranks 3rd of 9 nearby schools, at 79.1% versus a 65.5% average.
Audubon Elementary School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Audubon Elementary School's enrollment climbed from 528 in 2020-21 to 606 in 2024-25.
The Audubon Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. 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
Other Audubon Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Audubon Elementary. Audubon Elementary School is the largest of the 10.
- Audubon Elementary SchoolMAGNOLIA, TX · 509 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolBaton Rouge, LA · 495 students
- Audubon ElementaryFoster City, CA · 445 students
- AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMERRITT ISLAND, FL · 416 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolOwensboro, KY · 408 students
Nearby schools
- Bell Elementary School0.4 mi · 902
- Lane Technical High School0.5 mi · 4,604
- Jahn Elementary School0.5 mi · 360
- Hamilton Elementary School0.6 mi · 486
- Alcott College Prep0.7 mi · 373
- Coonley Elementary School0.7 mi · 723
Frequently asked questions
About Audubon Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Audubon Elementary School?
Audubon Elementary School enrolls approximately 606 students in grades PK-08.
Is Audubon Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Audubon Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Audubon Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Audubon Elementary School is approximately 13.6:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Audubon Elementary School?
At Audubon Elementary School, the student body is approximately 68% White, 17% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Audubon Elementary School public or private?
Audubon Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.