Enrollment
279
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006484
CICS - Bond Campus
13300 S Langley Ave, Chicago, IL 60827 · (773) 468-1300 · Cook County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL279 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
251 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 31 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 29 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 24% larger than its 6th grade class (29).
Student demographics
3%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
20.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.1pp since 2023
Math
13.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.0% | 13.1% |
| 2023-24 | 7.9% | 6.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 CICS - Bond Campus
CICS - Bond Campus's state test result (14.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CICS - Bond Campus this school | 279 | 90.0% | 14.1% |
| Lalumier Elementary School Centreville | 276 | 90.6% | 6.8% |
| Ruggles Elementary School Chicago | 290 | 91.7% | 23.7% |
| Whistler Elementary School Chicago | 242 | 88.8% | 25.6% |
| Neil Elementary School Chicago | 258 | 88.0% | 18.3% |
| Parkside Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 283 | 88.3% | 17.4% |
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 CICS - Bond Campus ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.1% | #1,782 of 1,925 | #680 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #1,795 of 2,077 ▼ 9 | #644 of 829 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #1,923 of 2,077 ▲ 66 | #761 of 829 ▲ 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 279 | #1,657 of 2,419 | #684 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #1,782 of 2,035 | #739 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.8% | #2,030 of 2,042 | #814 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.0% | #278 of 2,132 | #200 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #554 of 1,461 | #317 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
279
-26 (-9%) vs 2020
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 | 279 | 17 | 16.4:1 | 90% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 263 | 17 | 15.5:1 | 89% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 253 | 11 | 23.0:1 | 96% (242) |
| 2020-21 | 305 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 338 | N/A | N/A | 97% (329) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CICS - Bond Campus.
About CICS - Bond Campus
CICS - Bond Campus is a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, (ZIP code 60827). Grades offered run from kindergarten through 6, with 279 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which runs CICS - Bond Campus, has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
The student body at CICS - Bond Campus is 99% Black. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 22%. The school's diversity index is 3%, meaning two students picked at random have a 3% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 17 full-time positions, a ratio of 16.4:1. That is higher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 90%. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 24 points.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, CICS - Bond Campus is 5.5 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 14.1% actual, 19.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
In Cook County (population about 5,182,090), the median household income is $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 1,406 public schools in Cook County, enrolling about 697,934 students in all.
The nearest public school is Carver Primary School, at about 0.2 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, CICS - Bond Campus ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large). NCES lists CICS - Bond Campus as a charter school.
2024-25 enrollment was 279, a 9% decrease from 305 in 2020-21.
The CICS - Bond Campus community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- Carver Primary School0.2 mi · 467
- Aldridge Elem School0.3 mi · 257
- Dubois Elem School0.5 mi · 201
- Carver Military Academy HS0.9 mi · 420
- Lincoln Junior High School1.0 mi · 168
- Lincoln Elementary School1.0 mi · 342
Frequently asked questions
About CICS - Bond CampusHow large is CICS - Bond Campus?
CICS - Bond Campus enrolls approximately 279 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does CICS - Bond Campus serve?
CICS - Bond Campus serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does CICS - Bond Campus have?
CICS - Bond Campus employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
How diverse is CICS - Bond Campus?
CICS - Bond Campus reports a student body of 1% Hispanic, 99% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees CICS - Bond Campus?
CICS - Bond Campus is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.