Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct

Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct is an elementary school of sizable scale in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, enrolling 784 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 106% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct lists that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 16.1%; Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct posts 49.4%, +33.3 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct is one campus in the mix.

Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chavez Elem Multicultural Acad Ct ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 16.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 971 students in 2018 compared to 784 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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