Cleveland Elem School

As a mid-tier primary school in Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland Elem School enrolls 507 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 33% above typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Cleveland Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cleveland Elem School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 11% White, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Cleveland Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cleveland Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Cleveland Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CICS - Irving Park Campus, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cleveland Elem School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

Cleveland Elem School operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cleveland Elem School has shrank 9%, going from 558 students in 2018 to 507 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 7% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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