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Enrollment
784
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000411
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct
4747 S Marshfield Ave, Chicago, IL 60609 · (773) 535-4600 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL784 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Illinois public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
14.8:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
753 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 | 53 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 79 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 16% larger than its 8th grade class (76).
Student demographics
6%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
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct→Richards 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
54.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.5pp since 2023
Math
49.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +16.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 16 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.7% | 49.5% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 33.4% |
% 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
49.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+33.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 16% 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 33 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 Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct's state test result (49.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct this school | 784 | 96.0% | 49.4% |
| Cardenas Elementary School Chicago | 764 | 95.8% | 37.2% |
| Sawyer Elementary School Chicago | 885 | 95.9% | 22.2% |
| Warren Park School Cicero | 695 | 94.8% | 29.0% |
| Nixon Elementary School Chicago | 672 | 94.9% | 16.4% |
| Abe Lincoln Elementary School Cicero | 717 | 92.2% | 36.3% |
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 Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #611 of 1,925 | #164 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #680 of 2,077 ▲ 19 | #201 of 829 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #851 of 2,077 ▼ 85 | #263 of 829 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 784 | #68 of 2,419 | #50 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #1,485 of 2,035 | #648 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.0% | #1,974 of 2,042 | #775 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.0% | #117 of 2,132 | #89 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.3% | #472 of 1,461 | #274 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
784
-44 (-5%) vs 2020
-17% since 2000-01, when it was 948
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 | 784 | 53 | 14.8:1 | 96% (753) |
| 2023-24 | 783 | 54 | 14.5:1 | 97% (758) |
| 2022-23 | 813 | 51 | 15.9:1 | 97% (787) |
| 2020-21 | 828 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 971 | 43.8 | 22.2:1 | 99% (957) |
| 2015-16 | 964 | 46 | 21.0:1 | 99% (956) |
| 2010-11 | 872 | 46 | 19.0:1 | 100% (869) |
| 2000-01 | 948 | 60 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (971 to 784); teachers up 21% (43.8 to 53).
About Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct is a large elementary school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, located in Chicago, Illinois. The school counts 784 students across pre-K through 8. The school's enrollment is 106% larger than the 381 average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 is the local district for Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct. It runs 622 schools with 324,396 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct, with 97% of enrollment. County-wide, 27% of Cook County residents are Hispanic. Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct has a diversity index of 6%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
A ratio of 14.8:1 comes from the school's 53 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 96% in 2024-25. It compares with 66% for public schools in Cook County.
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 81% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct is among the top 10% of schools in Illinois. Predicted: 16.1%. Actual: 49.4%.
Cook County census figures show that median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct is among the 1,406 public schools in Cook County.
Of nearby public schools, Seward Elementary Communication Arts Ac is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 16.5% proficiency; Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct posts 49.4%.
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Federal counts put enrollment at 828 in 2020-21 and 784 in 2024-25, a 5% decrease.
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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
Nearby schools
- Seward Elementary Communication Arts Ac0.2 mi · 390
- Hamline Elementary School0.2 mi · 582
- Lara Elementary Academy0.4 mi · 362
- Richards Career Academy High School0.4 mi · 348
- Hedges Elementary School0.4 mi · 502
- Daley Elementary Academy0.5 mi · 511
Frequently asked questions
About Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy CtHow large is Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct?
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct enrolls approximately 784 students in grades PK-08.
Is Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct an elementary, middle, or high school?
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct have?
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct employs 53 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
How diverse is Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct?
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct reports a student body of 0% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct public or private?
Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.