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Enrollment
452
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000638
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School
932 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60651 · (773) 534-6025 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL452 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
425 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 | 83 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 30 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 34 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 38 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 24% larger than its 8th grade class (38).
Student demographics
43%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
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School→Austin College and Career 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
13.4%
IL avg 51.0% . -3.7pp since 2023
Math
3.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 4 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.4% | 3.7% |
| 2023-24 | 17.1% | 2.8% |
% 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
8.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School's state test result (8.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School this school | 452 | 94.0% | 8.6% |
| Sullivan Elementary School Chicago | 439 | 96.1% | 14.6% |
| Wentworth Elementary School Chicago | 433 | 97.5% | 10.1% |
| CICS - Prairie Campus Chicago | 412 | 94.4% | 18.4% |
| Young Elementary School Chicago | 417 | 96.2% | 15.6% |
| Nicholson Tech Academy Elementary School Chicago | 487 | 92.4% | 11.8% |
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 Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.6% | #1,900 of 1,925 | #750 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 3.7% | #2,056 of 2,077 ▼ 75 | #814 of 829 ▼ 44 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.4% | #2,028 of 2,077 ▼ 356 | #814 of 829 ▼ 186 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 452 | #743 of 2,419 | #346 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #922 of 2,035 | #425 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.1% | #1,079 of 2,042 | #402 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.0% | #183 of 2,132 | #135 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #1,162 of 1,461 | #554 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
452
+36 (+9%) vs 2020
-16% 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 | 452 | 34.5 | 13.1:1 | 94% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 421 | 35.5 | 11.9:1 | 92% (389) |
| 2022-23 | 421 | 31.5 | 13.4:1 | 93% (391) |
| 2020-21 | 416 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 26.5 | 18.1:1 | 97% (467) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 28 | 20.6:1 | 98% (568) |
| 2010-11 | 647 | 32 | 20.2:1 | 95% (617) |
| 2000-01 | 526 | 31 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 27 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (479 to 452); teachers up 30% (26.5 to 34.5).
About Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School
Among the schools in Chicago, Illinois, is Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. Enrollment totals 452 students across pre-K through 8.
The Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 system has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
More than half of the students at Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School are Black (71%). Other reported shares: 26% Hispanic. That compares with about 22% Black among all Cook County residents. The diversity index for Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School is 43%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1, 0.8 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 94% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School is -8.6 points: 8.6% actual, 17.2% predicted.
In Cook County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School among them.
Of the public schools around it, Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School is closest to Howe Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 21.5%; Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School's is 8.6%, ranking 7th of 8.
In the federal locale system, Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 36 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School. 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
Nearby schools
- Howe Elementary School0.4 mi · 341
- Hay Elementary Community Academy0.5 mi · 247
- Douglass Academy High School0.5 mi · 29
- Young Elementary School0.6 mi · 417
- Moving Everest Charter School0.8 mi · 755
- Whittier Elementary School0.8 mi · 386
Frequently asked questions
About Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School?
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School enrolls approximately 452 students in grades PK-08.
Is Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School have?
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
How diverse is Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School?
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 26% Hispanic, 71% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School?
Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.