Enrollment
166
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993004016
Colemon J Elementary Academy
1441 W 119th St, Chicago, IL 60643 · (773) 535-3975 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL166 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
7.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
129 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 11 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 19 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 16 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 14 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 15 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 21 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 22 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 18 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (11) is 39% smaller than its 8th grade class (18).
Student demographics
10%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
Colemon J Elementary Academy→Fenger Academy High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
50.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +22.5pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.5% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 22.9% |
% 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
38.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Colemon J Elementary Academy
Colemon J Elementary Academy's state test result (38.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colemon J Elementary Academy this school | 166 | 77.7% | 38.6% |
| Revere Elementary School Chicago | 184 | 78.8% | 13.2% |
| McKinley Elementary School South Holland | 176 | 80.1% | 34.3% |
| Turner-Drew Elementary Language Academy Chicago | 194 | 77.8% | 39.1% |
| Sumner Elementary Math & Sci Comm Academy Chicago | 203 | 78.8% | 35.8% |
| Dunne Technology Academy Elementary School Chicago | 206 | 79.1% | 33.9% |
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 Colemon J Elementary Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #968 of 1,925 | #267 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #1,215 of 2,077 ▼ 144 | #369 of 829 ▼ 53 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #986 of 2,077 ▲ 277 | #315 of 829 ▲ 114 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 166 | #2,161 of 2,419 | #858 of 901 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.7% | #564 of 2,132 | #379 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.1% | #110 of 1,461 | #71 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
166
-45 (-21%) vs 2020
-39% since 2010-11, when it was 274
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 | 166 | 22.5 | 7.4:1 | 78% (129) |
| 2023-24 | 179 | 17 | 10.5:1 | 80% (144) |
| 2022-23 | 193 | 18 | 10.7:1 | 82% (159) |
| 2020-21 | 211 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 252 | 13.5 | 18.7:1 | 87% (219) |
| 2015-16 | 262 | 13 | 20.1:1 | 81% (213) |
| 2010-11 | 274 | 12 | 22.8:1 | 84% (229) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Colemon J Elementary Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (252 to 166); teachers up 67% (13.5 to 22.5).
About Colemon J Elementary Academy
Colemon J Elementary Academy serves students in Chicago, Illinois, as a small elementary school. The school serves pre-K through 8. Enrollment is 166 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students in 622 schools, including Colemon J Elementary Academy.
By race and ethnicity, Colemon J Elementary Academy is 95% Black. The remaining shares are 5% Hispanic. Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 10% means there is a 10% chance two randomly chosen students at Colemon J Elementary Academy are from different groups.
On staff are 22.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 7.4:1. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is 13.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 78% of the student body. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
Colemon J Elementary Academy earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 61% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Colemon J Elementary Academy sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 38.6% and a predicted 26.6%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that the median household earns about $83,498 a year, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
White Elementary Career Academy, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Colemon J Elementary Academy, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Colemon J Elementary Academy ranks 1st of 7 on average proficiency.
Federal data place Colemon J Elementary Academy in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 21% across 4 years, from 211 in 2020-21 to 166 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Colemon J Elementary Academy community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
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- 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
- White Elementary Career Academy0.4 mi · 116
- Whistler Elementary School0.5 mi · 242
- Higgins Elementary Community Academy0.6 mi · 271
- Burr Oak Academy0.6 mi · 289
- Burr Oak Elementary School0.7 mi · 290
- Shoop Math-Sci Tech Elementary Academy1.0 mi · 515
Frequently asked questions
About Colemon J Elementary AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Colemon J Elementary Academy?
Colemon J Elementary Academy enrolls approximately 166 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Colemon J Elementary Academy serve?
Colemon J Elementary Academy serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Colemon J Elementary Academy have?
Colemon J Elementary Academy employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Colemon J Elementary Academy?
At Colemon J Elementary Academy, the student body is approximately 5% Hispanic, 95% Black.
Who oversees Colemon J Elementary Academy?
Colemon J Elementary Academy 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.