Carver Primary School

As an average-sized elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, Carver Primary School works with 467 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Carver Primary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver Primary School logs that nearly all students (99%) are Black. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, On paper, Carver Primary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Carver Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Carver Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.9%, the actual is 11.3%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Carver Primary School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

CICS - Bond Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carver Primary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 15.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carver Primary School has declined 5%, going from 494 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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