Corkery Elem School

As a moderately sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, Corkery Elem School works with 442 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Corkery Elem School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Corkery Elem School logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Corkery Elem School reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Corkery Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 89% of students at Corkery Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Corkery Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.2%; this one delivers 12.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Corkery Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Zapata Elem Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Corkery Elem School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 525 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 16% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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