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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the CICS - Washington Pk Campus administration to hear?
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Enrollment
493
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006512
CICS - Washington Pk Campus
110 E 61st St, Chicago, IL 60637 · (773) 347-0200 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL493 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
27.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
470 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 41 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 49% larger than its 8th grade class (41).
Student demographics
7%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
53.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +30.2pp since 2023
Math
27.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 30 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 27.9% |
| 2023-24 | 22.8% | 12.0% |
% 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
32.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% 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 16 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 CICS - Washington Pk Campus
CICS - Washington Pk Campus's state test result (32.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CICS - Washington Pk Campus this school | 493 | 95.3% | 32.1% |
| LEARN Chtr - Butler Chicago | 475 | 97.3% | 30.2% |
| Deneen Elementary School Chicago | 451 | 92.2% | 21.2% |
| Shoop Math-Sci Tech Elementary Academy Chicago | 515 | 91.3% | 20.0% |
| Legacy Elementary Charter School Chicago | 458 | 92.4% | 23.1% |
| Providence-Englewood Elementary Charter Chicago | 428 | 97.0% | 22.7% |
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 - Washington Pk Campus ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #1,190 of 1,925 | #362 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #1,360 of 2,077 ▲ 170 | #420 of 829 ▲ 86 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #902 of 2,077 ▲ 558 | #285 of 829 ▲ 240 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 493 | #581 of 2,419 | #281 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 27.4:1 | #2,020 of 2,035 | #812 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.7% | #1,958 of 2,042 | #765 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.3% | #137 of 2,132 | #107 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.6% | #349 of 615 | #103 of 186 |
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
493
-4 (-1%) 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 | 493 | 18 | 27.4:1 | 95% (470) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 16 | 30.4:1 | 79% (383) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 19 | 25.6:1 | 94% (459) |
| 2020-21 | 497 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 458 | N/A | N/A | 95% (436) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CICS - Washington Pk Campus.
About CICS - Washington Pk Campus
CICS - Washington Pk Campus is a medium-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school's 493 students are in kindergarten through 8. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students each.
The 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enroll 324,396 students altogether, CICS - Washington Pk Campus among them.
About 97% of the student body at CICS - Washington Pk Campus is Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 3% Hispanic. In Cook County overall, about 22% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 7% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 18 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 27.4:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The school's lunch program data list 95% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Cook County average 66%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for CICS - Washington Pk Campus is +15.7 points, in the top 10% of Illinois. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 32.1%, and the predicted rate is 16.5%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CICS - Washington Pk Campus is one of 1,406 public schools in the county.
The nearest public school is Dulles Elementary School, at about 0.4 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 9.1% proficiency; CICS - Washington Pk Campus posts 32.1%.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 497 in 2020-21, 493 in 2024-25.
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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
- Dulles Elementary School0.4 mi · 651
- Carter Elementary School0.4 mi · 279
- Fiske Elementary School0.6 mi · 373
- Urban Prep Chtr Academy Englewood High School0.7 mi · 87
- Sherwood Elementary School0.7 mi · 204
- YCCS-Progressive Leadership Academy0.8 mi · 122
Frequently asked questions
About CICS - Washington Pk CampusHow large is CICS - Washington Pk Campus?
CICS - Washington Pk Campus enrolls approximately 493 students in grades KG-08.
Is CICS - Washington Pk Campus an elementary, middle, or high school?
CICS - Washington Pk Campus is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does CICS - Washington Pk Campus have?
CICS - Washington Pk Campus employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 27.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at CICS - Washington Pk Campus?
At CICS - Washington Pk Campus, the student body is approximately 0% White, 3% Hispanic, 97% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is CICS - Washington Pk Campus public or private?
CICS - Washington Pk Campus is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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