Enrollment
312
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000607
Bennett Elementary School
10115 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60628 · (773) 535-5460 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL312 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
251 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 | 31 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 30 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 32 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 30 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 22 | 7% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 10 | 2 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 32% larger than its 8th grade class (22).
Student demographics
13%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
Bennett Elementary School→Harlan Community Academy 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
43.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +23.0pp since 2023
Math
13.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.7% | 13.5% |
| 2023-24 | 20.7% | 2.5% |
% 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
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Bennett Elementary School
Bennett Elementary School's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Elementary School this school | 312 | 80.4% | 23.0% |
| Gillespie Elementary School Chicago | 288 | 79.9% | 18.2% |
| Smyth J Elementary School Chicago | 348 | 80.5% | 7.3% |
| Wells Preparatory Elementary Academy Chicago | 308 | 82.8% | 32.8% |
| Dett Elementary School Chicago | 326 | 82.5% | 6.6% |
| Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood Chicago | 304 | 77.6% | 35.5% |
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 Bennett Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #1,510 of 1,925 | #510 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #1,783 of 2,077 ▲ 212 | #634 of 829 ▲ 147 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #1,218 of 2,077 ▲ 323 | #401 of 829 ▲ 162 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 312 | #1,472 of 2,419 | #611 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,507 of 2,035 | #656 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.2% | #1,806 of 2,042 | #684 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.4% | #494 of 2,132 | #340 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.0% | #570 of 615 | #171 of 186 |
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
312
+37 (+13%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 474
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 | 312 | 21 | 14.9:1 | 80% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 257 | 21 | 12.2:1 | 83% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 17 | 15.2:1 | 87% (225) |
| 2020-21 | 275 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 309 | 13.5 | 22.9:1 | 95% (295) |
| 2015-16 | 349 | 16 | 21.8:1 | 93% (325) |
| 2010-11 | 555 | 29 | 19.1:1 | 99% (549) |
| 2000-01 | 651 | 33 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 474 | 28 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bennett Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (309 to 312); teachers up 56% (13.5 to 21).
About Bennett Elementary School
Bennett Elementary School is a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It reported 312 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25.
Bennett Elementary School is a school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The district has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
Roughly 93% of students at Bennett Elementary School are Black. The remaining students are 6% Hispanic. Among people living in Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. The diversity index for Bennett Elementary School is 13%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, Bennett Elementary School has a ratio of 14.9:1. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 0.9 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 80%. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 14 points lower.
Bennett Elementary School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 22% of Illinois public elementary schools.
A school with Bennett Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Illinois is predicted to score 25.1%. Bennett Elementary School scores 23.0%, 2.0 points below that line.
For Cook County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
Bennett Elementary School's nearest public school is Smith W Elementary School (about 0.6 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Bennett Elementary School is 3rd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Under the NCES locale system, Bennett Elementary School is City: Large.
A 13% gain took enrollment from 275 in 2020-21 to 312 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Bennett Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Other Bennett Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 10 states are named Bennett Elementary. Bennett Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 11.
- Bennett ElementaryManassas, VA · 746 students
- BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFargo, ND · 622 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolWOLFFORTH, TX · 610 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolBellevue, WA · 513 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolDETROIT, MI · 498 students
Nearby schools
- Smith W Elementary School0.6 mi · 340
- Harlan Community Academy High School0.6 mi · 220
- Hughes L Elementary School0.7 mi · 431
- Cullen Elementary School0.7 mi · 176
- Poe Elementary Classical School0.8 mi · 224
- Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson0.8 mi · 695
Frequently asked questions
About Bennett Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bennett Elementary School?
Bennett Elementary School enrolls approximately 312 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Bennett Elementary School serve?
Bennett Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bennett Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bennett Elementary School is approximately 14.9:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bennett Elementary School?
At Bennett Elementary School, the student body is approximately 6% Hispanic, 93% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Bennett Elementary School in?
Bennett Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.