Enrollment
303
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000637
Burroughs Elementary School
3542 S Washtenaw Ave, Chicago, IL 60632 · (773) 535-7226 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL303 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
280 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 | 12 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 30 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 18 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 31 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 38 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 34% smaller than its 8th grade class (38).
Student demographics
16%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
Burroughs Elementary School→Thomas Kelly College Preparatory
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
59.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.5pp since 2023
Math
34.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.4% | 34.8% |
| 2023-24 | 45.9% | 19.4% |
% 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
44.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 18% 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 27 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 Burroughs Elementary School
Burroughs Elementary School's state test result (44.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burroughs Elementary School this school | 303 | 92.4% | 44.9% |
| Brighton Park Elementary School Chicago | 298 | 90.6% | 24.3% |
| Pickard Elementary School Chicago | 319 | 90.6% | 39.8% |
| Talman Elementary School Chicago | 332 | 89.8% | 39.2% |
| Lara Elementary Academy Chicago | 362 | 91.4% | 20.8% |
| Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center Chicago | 351 | 93.7% | 20.7% |
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 Burroughs Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #741 of 1,925 | #196 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #1,120 of 2,077 ▲ 86 | #338 of 829 ▲ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #694 of 2,077 ▼ 83 | #227 of 829 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 303 | #1,521 of 2,419 | #630 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #183 of 2,035 | #113 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #1,727 of 2,042 | #656 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.4% | #217 of 2,132 | #156 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.9% | #92 of 1,461 | #61 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
303
-123 (-29%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 339
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 | 303 | 29 | 10.4:1 | 92% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 308 | 26 | 11.8:1 | 93% (287) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 29 | 11.1:1 | 93% (300) |
| 2020-21 | 426 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 473 | 24.9 | 19.0:1 | 92% (436) |
| 2015-16 | 477 | 25 | 19.1:1 | 94% (446) |
| 2010-11 | 471 | 24 | 19.6:1 | 98% (462) |
| 2000-01 | 511 | 24 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 339 | 24 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Burroughs Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (473 to 303); teachers up 16% (24.9 to 29).
About Burroughs Elementary School
Burroughs Elementary School is a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It educates 303 students in pre-K through 8. The school's enrollment is 20% smaller than the 381 average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 324,396 students in 622 schools, and Burroughs Elementary School is one of those schools.
The large majority of students at Burroughs Elementary School, 91%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 4% Black and 3% White. Among people living in Cook County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. The chance that two students picked at random at Burroughs Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 16%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1 at Burroughs Elementary School, with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 92%. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Burroughs Elementary School would score about 18.1%. It scores 44.9%, a top-10% result among Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
Across Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Burroughs Elementary School is among the 1,406 public schools in Cook County.
The nearest public school is Brighton Park Elementary School, at about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Burroughs Elementary School is 3rd on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 426 to 303 over 4 years.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Burroughs Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Burroughs Elementary. Burroughs Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 7.
- Burroughs ElementaryFresno, CA · 674 students
- Burroughs ElementaryMINNEAPOLIS, MN · 481 students
- Burroughs Elementary SchoolColumbus, OH · 371 students
- Burroughs Elementary SchoolWashington, DC · 331 students
- Burroughs Elementary SchoolToledo, OH · 310 students
Nearby schools
- Brighton Park Elementary School0.3 mi · 298
- Acero Chtr - Sandra Cisneros Elementary School0.4 mi · 326
- Davis N Elementary School0.6 mi · 540
- Everett Elementary School0.6 mi · 89
- Horizon Science Academy-McKinley Pk0.7 mi · 873
- Thomas Kelly College Preparatory0.7 mi · 1,762
Frequently asked questions
About Burroughs Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Burroughs Elementary School?
Burroughs Elementary School enrolls approximately 303 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Burroughs Elementary School serve?
Burroughs Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Burroughs Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Burroughs Elementary School is approximately 10.4:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Burroughs Elementary School?
At Burroughs Elementary School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 91% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian.
Is Burroughs Elementary School public or private?
Burroughs Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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