Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch

Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch, a mid-tier K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, educates 459 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 20% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 10% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.7%; this one delivers 27.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Acero Chtr - Carlos Fuentes Elem, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Avondale - Logandale Elem Sch's enrollment has shrank 36% since 2018, when it stood at 720 (now 459). Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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