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How has Blaine Elem School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
639
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000610
Blaine Elementary School
1420 W Grace St, Chicago, IL 60613 · (773) 534-5750 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL639 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
66 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 77 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 9% smaller than its 8th grade class (67).
Student demographics
53%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
Blaine Elementary School→Lake View 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
84.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.1pp since 2023
Math
78.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.1% | 78.1% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 66.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
79.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Blaine Elementary School
Blaine Elementary School's state test result (79.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaine Elementary School this school | 639 | 10.3% | 79.7% |
| Audubon Elementary School Chicago | 606 | 9.1% | 79.1% |
| Coonley Elementary School Chicago | 723 | 10.7% | 76.5% |
| Hawthorne Elementary School Elmhurst | 568 | 9.5% | 77.8% |
| Elmwood Elementary School Naperville | 726 | 13.6% | 69.1% |
| Mayer Elementary School Chicago | 707 | 8.8% | 74.6% |
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 Blaine Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.7% | #28 of 1,925 | #12 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.1% | #98 of 2,077 ▼ 12 | #36 of 829 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.1% | #72 of 2,077 ▲ 34 | #35 of 829 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 639 | #202 of 2,419 | #121 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #997 of 2,035 | #455 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.8% | #833 of 2,042 | #298 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.3% | #2,082 of 2,132 | #789 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.8% | #215 of 1,461 | #136 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
639
-117 (-15%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 537
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 | 639 | 48 | 13.3:1 | 10% (66) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 50.8 | 12.5:1 | 11% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 643 | 48 | 13.4:1 | 13% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 756 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 885 | 45.9 | 19.3:1 | 17% (152) |
| 2015-16 | 896 | 43 | 20.8:1 | 19% (172) |
| 2010-11 | 916 | 43 | 21.3:1 | 19% (175) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 36 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 36 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blaine Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (885 to 639); teachers up 5% (45.9 to 48).
About Blaine Elementary School
Blaine Elementary School is an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, and it is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. There are 639 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 8. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average enrollment is about 381.
The Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 system has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
White students are 66% of those enrolled at Blaine Elementary School. Next come 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 2% Black. That compares with about 44% White among all Cook County residents. A diversity index of 53% means there is a 53% chance two randomly chosen students at Blaine Elementary School are from different groups.
Its ratio of 13.3:1 is based on 48 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 13.9:1. In all, 10% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 66% for public schools in Cook County.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 79.7%, is 14.1 points above the 65.5% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of Illinois schools.
In the wider Cook County area, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Blaine Elementary School shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
Blaine Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Lake View High School, its nearest public school. Blaine Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Blaine Elementary School's average proficiency of 79.7% compares with 53.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Blaine Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Large.
The school's enrollment decreased 15% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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 Blaine Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Blaine Elementary. Blaine Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Blaine Elementary SchoolBLAINE, WA · 469 students
- Blaine Elementary SchoolBlaine, KY · 149 students
Nearby schools
- Lake View High School0.4 mi · 1,431
- Hamilton Elementary School0.5 mi · 486
- Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy0.7 mi · 642
- Inter-American Elementary Magnet School0.7 mi · 616
- Greeley Elementary School0.8 mi · 331
- Ravenswood Elementary School0.8 mi · 522
Frequently asked questions
About Blaine Elementary SchoolHow large is Blaine Elementary School?
Blaine Elementary School enrolls approximately 639 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Blaine Elementary School serve?
Blaine Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Blaine Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Blaine Elementary School is approximately 13.3:1 (48 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Blaine Elementary School?
Blaine Elementary School reports a student body of 66% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Blaine Elementary School in?
Blaine Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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