Enrollment
313
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000590
Bass Elementary School
1140 W 66th St, Chicago, IL 60621 · (773) 535-3275 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL313 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
307 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 | 33 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 27 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 30 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 2 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 7% smaller than its 8th grade class (30).
Student demographics
20%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
Bass Elementary School→Englewood STEM 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
17.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +4.3pp since 2023
Math
10.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.6% | 10.2% |
| 2023-24 | 13.3% | 3.5% |
% 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
13.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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 Bass Elementary School
Bass Elementary School's state test result (13.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bass Elementary School this school | 313 | 98.1% | 13.8% |
| Cather Elementary School Chicago | 321 | 97.2% | 18.4% |
| Bernard Long Elementary School Madison | 337 | 98.2% | 10.7% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Dolton | 342 | 100.0% | 14.3% |
| Drake Elementary School Chicago | 302 | 97.7% | 15.9% |
| James Avant Elementary School Washington Pk | 342 | 99.4% | 32.1% |
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 Bass Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.8% | #1,793 of 1,925 | #688 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.2% | #1,891 of 2,077 ▲ 51 | #702 of 829 ▲ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #1,975 of 2,077 ▼ 151 | #785 of 829 ▼ 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 313 | #1,465 of 2,419 | #609 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #686 of 2,035 | #322 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.6% | #1,636 of 2,042 | #615 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.1% | #67 of 2,132 | #46 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.8% | #185 of 1,461 | #116 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
313
-67 (-18%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 777
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 | 313 | 25.3 | 12.4:1 | 98% (307) |
| 2023-24 | 287 | 25 | 11.5:1 | 99% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 31 | 11.0:1 | 98% (333) |
| 2020-21 | 380 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 446 | 24.4 | 18.3:1 | 98% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 478 | 28 | 17.1:1 | 99% (471) |
| 2010-11 | 428 | 19 | 22.5:1 | 98% (421) |
| 2000-01 | 752 | 36 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 777 | 39 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bass Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (446 to 313); teachers up 4% (24.4 to 25.3).
About Bass Elementary School
This page covers Bass Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. Grades offered run from pre-K through 8, with 313 students enrolled.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 operates 622 schools. Combined enrollment is 324,396 students.
The student body at Bass Elementary School is 89% Black. The rest of enrollment is 10% Hispanic. Among all residents of Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. Bass Elementary School's diversity index is 20%, against a US figure of 70%.
Bass Elementary School's 25.3 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 12.4:1. On average, elementary schools in Illinois have 13.9:1, compared with 12.4:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 98%. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 32 points.
After adjusting for student poverty, Bass Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 13.8%; the prediction is 14.9%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides Bass Elementary School, Cook County has 1,405 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Mays Elementary Academy, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Bass Elementary School is 5th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 313 students in 2024-25, 67 fewer than the 380 it had in 2020-21.
Community posts for Bass Elementary School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Mays Elementary Academy0.4 mi · 277
- Providence-Englewood Elementary Charter0.5 mi · 428
- Bond Elementary School0.6 mi · 233
- Kershaw Elementary School0.7 mi · 226
- Wentworth Elementary School0.7 mi · 433
- Davis M Magnet Elementary School0.7 mi · 120
Frequently asked questions
About Bass Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bass Elementary School?
Bass Elementary School enrolls approximately 313 students in grades PK-08.
Is Bass Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bass Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Bass Elementary School have?
Bass Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Bass Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bass Elementary School are roughly 0% White, 10% Hispanic, 89% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is Bass Elementary School public or private?
Bass 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.