Belmont-Cragin Elem School

Located at 6112 W Fullerton Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Belmont-Cragin Elem School is a mid-sized primary school that caters to 518 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Belmont-Cragin Elem School sits 36% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belmont-Cragin Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Other groups include 4% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Belmont-Cragin Elem School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Belmont-Cragin Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at Belmont-Cragin Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Belmont-Cragin Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.7%, the actual is 18.0%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Belmont-Cragin Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CICS - West Belden Campus, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Belmont-Cragin Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belmont-Cragin Elem School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 25.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belmont-Cragin Elem School has shrank 7%, going from 559 students in 2018 to 518 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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