Chopin Elem School

Chopin Elem School operates as a tight-knit K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 323 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

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

On the student-mix side, Chopin Elem School reports that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 31% Black, 16% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Chopin Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, Chopin Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.3%; this one delivers 14.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chopin Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Chopin Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 24%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 323 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 68% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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