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Enrollment
508
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000665
Clissold Elementary School
2350 W 110th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643 · (773) 535-2560 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
171 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
4
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 71 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 42 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 43% larger than its 8th grade class (42).
Student demographics
46%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Clissold Elementary School→Morgan Park High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
39.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.7pp since 2023
Math
17.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 17.5% |
| 2023-24 | 25.3% | 8.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
26.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Clissold Elementary School
Clissold Elementary School's state test result (26.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clissold Elementary School this school | 508 | 33.7% | 26.4% |
| Hoover Elementary School Calumet City | 571 | 35.0% | 16.9% |
| Sutherland Elementary School Chicago | 641 | 34.3% | 39.4% |
| Western Avenue Elementary School Flossmoor | 499 | 39.3% | 55.0% |
| Arcadia Elementary School Olympia Fields | 516 | 43.6% | 36.1% |
| Kellogg Elementary School Chicago | 299 | 31.8% | 53.6% |
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 Clissold Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #1,403 of 1,925 | #458 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.5% | #1,670 of 2,077 ▲ 11 | #569 of 829 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,380 of 2,077 ▼ 16 | #478 of 829 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #525 of 2,419 | #255 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #788 of 2,035 | #372 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.0% | #1,004 of 2,042 | #367 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.7% | #1,710 of 2,132 | #697 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.2% | #613 of 615 | #186 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
508
+60 (+13%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 678
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 | 508 | 40 | 12.7:1 | 34% (171) |
| 2023-24 | 476 | 40 | 11.9:1 | 47% (223) |
| 2022-23 | 398 | 33.5 | 11.9:1 | 43% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 507 | 28.1 | 18.1:1 | 39% (196) |
| 2015-16 | 527 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 48% (251) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 29 | 19.9:1 | 25% (145) |
| 2000-01 | 677 | 34 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 678 | 29 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clissold Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (507 to 508); teachers up 43% (28.1 to 40).
About Clissold Elementary School
Clissold Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It reported 508 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 includes 622 schools. Together they enroll 324,396 students.
The student body at Clissold Elementary School is 71% Black. After that, the student body is 16% White, 10% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. Among all residents of Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. A diversity index of 46% means there is a 46% chance two randomly chosen students at Clissold Elementary School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1. The school has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is 13.9:1. Federal data show 34% of students (171) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 32 points below the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
On the allk12 Grade, Clissold Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 10% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Clissold Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 25.7 points (26.4% versus 52.1%), a bottom-10% result in Illinois on BeatsExpectations.
Cook County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Clissold Elementary School shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
About 0.5 miles separate Clissold Elementary School from the closest public school, Vick Early Childhood & Family Center. The five-mile area around Clissold Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Clissold Elementary School ranks 5th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 26.4% against a local average of 43.7%.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 60 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Clissold Elementary School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- Vick Early Childhood & Family Center0.5 mi · 417
- Esmond Elementary School0.6 mi · 221
- Morgan Park High School0.7 mi · 1,349
- Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School0.9 mi · 222
- Shoop Math-Sci Tech Elementary Academy1.1 mi · 515
- Sutherland Elementary School1.2 mi · 641
Frequently asked questions
About Clissold Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Clissold Elementary School?
Clissold Elementary School enrolls approximately 508 students in grades PK-08.
Is Clissold Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Clissold Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Clissold Elementary School have?
Clissold Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Clissold Elementary School?
Student demographics at Clissold Elementary School are roughly 16% White, 10% Hispanic, 71% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Clissold Elementary School in?
Clissold Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.