Barry Elem School

Barry Elem School is a medium-sized K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school caters to 473 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Barry Elem School sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Barry Elem School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that teaches 324,396 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Barry Elem School reports that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 6% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barry Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.9%, the actual is 22.0%, a residual of +1.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Barry Elem School is one.

Kelvyn Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barry Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barry Elem School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 18.4%.

Barry Elem School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 34%: 714 students in 2018 compared to 473 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment climbed from 2% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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