Beethoven Elem School

Located at 25 W 47th St, in Chicago, Illinois, Beethoven Elem School is a mid-tier primary school that works with 333 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Beethoven Elem School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Beethoven Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (80%). The remainder comes out to 18% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Beethoven Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 8.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Beethoven Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Williams Medical Prep High Sch, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Beethoven Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beethoven Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beethoven Elem School has edged down 13%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 96% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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