Enrollment
225
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000641
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic
8546 S Cregier Ave, Chicago, IL 60617 · (773) 535-6300 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL225 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
138 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 | 30 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 29 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 18 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 19 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 19 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 17 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 24 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 23 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 26% larger than its 8th grade class (23).
Student demographics
11%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
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic→Chicago Vocational Career 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
38.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.2pp since 2023
Math
11.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.4pp 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 12 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.8% | 11.5% |
| 2023-24 | 22.6% | 6.1% |
% 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
21.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% 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 Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic's state test result (21.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic this school | 225 | 61.3% | 21.5% |
| South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School Chicago | 224 | 63.4% | 32.5% |
| Vanderpoel Elementary Magnet School Chicago | 241 | 56.8% | 22.9% |
| Owen Elementary Scholastic Academy Chicago | 281 | 58.4% | 28.7% |
| Coles Elementary Language Academy Chicago | 286 | 60.8% | 22.1% |
| Marya Yates Elementary School Matteson | 284 | 66.2% | 19.9% |
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 Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #1,561 of 1,925 | #540 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.5% | #1,853 of 2,077 ▼ 47 | #678 of 829 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #1,388 of 2,077 ▲ 82 | #483 of 829 ▲ 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 225 | #1,945 of 2,419 | #787 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #230 of 2,035 | #137 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.0% | #1,867 of 2,042 | #712 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.3% | #967 of 2,132 | #526 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #706 of 1,461 | #372 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
225
-35 (-13%) vs 2020
-65% since 1990-91, when it was 648
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 | 225 | 21 | 10.7:1 | 61% (138) |
| 2023-24 | 212 | 20 | 10.6:1 | 86% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 205 | 19 | 10.8:1 | 94% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 260 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 262 | 15.4 | 17.0:1 | 94% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 272 | 16 | 17.0:1 | 97% (263) |
| 2010-11 | 322 | 16 | 20.1:1 | 97% (313) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 35 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 648 | 37 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (262 to 225); teachers up 36% (15.4 to 21).
About Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic runs as a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It is open to students in pre-K through 8 and enrolls 225 students. It has 41% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 324,396 students in 622 schools, and Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic is one of those schools.
The share of students at Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic who are Black is 94%. Enrollment also includes 5% Hispanic. Among people living in Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 11, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic totals 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.7:1. Compared with the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 61% of students (138) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Schools in Illinois with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 36.1%. Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic posts 21.5%, 14.6 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
For Cook County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
Among nearby public schools, CICS - Avalon/South Shore is closest at about 0.4 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic places 6th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES describes the area around Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 260 (2020-21) to 225 (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
- CICS - Avalon/South Shore0.4 mi · 469
- Chicago Vocational Career Academy High School0.4 mi · 673
- YCCS-Sullivan House Alt High School0.5 mi · 281
- McDowell Elementary School0.6 mi · 112
- Black Magnet Elementary School0.7 mi · 336
- Mann Elementary School0.7 mi · 283
Frequently asked questions
About Daisy Bates Academy of Social JusticHow many students attend Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic?
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic enrolls approximately 225 students in grades PK-08.
Is Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic an elementary, middle, or high school?
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic.
What is the student diversity at Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic?
Student demographics at Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic are roughly 5% Hispanic, 94% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic public or private?
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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