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What's something Daley Elem Academy does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
511
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993004913
Daley Elementary Academy
5024 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60609 · (773) 535-9091 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL511 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
14.2:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
481 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 35 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 55 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (55).
Student demographics
23%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
Daley Elementary Academy→Richards Career Academy 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
23.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.8pp since 2023
Math
12.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.2% | 12.7% |
| 2023-24 | 11.4% | 2.5% |
% 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
17.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Daley Elementary Academy
Daley Elementary Academy's state test result (17.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daley Elementary Academy this school | 511 | 94.1% | 17.2% |
| M J Cunningham Elementary School Joliet | 484 | 94.0% | 20.2% |
| Nobel Elementary School Chicago | 592 | 96.3% | 18.3% |
| Fairfield Elementary Academy Chicago | 492 | 98.2% | 14.4% |
| Funston Elementary School Chicago | 440 | 97.3% | 16.2% |
| Avondale - Logandale Elementary School Chicago | 459 | 89.8% | 27.9% |
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 Daley Elementary Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.2% | #1,692 of 1,925 | #624 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #1,806 of 2,077 ▲ 193 | #652 of 829 ▲ 133 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #1,856 of 2,077 ▲ 33 | #725 of 829 ▲ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 511 | #511 of 2,419 | #251 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,298 of 2,035 | #582 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.7% | #1,550 of 2,042 | #583 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.1% | #179 of 2,132 | #132 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.5% | #685 of 1,461 | #364 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
511
-38 (-7%) vs 2020
+70% since 1990-91, when it was 301
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 | 511 | 36 | 14.2:1 | 94% (481) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 32.3 | 15.6:1 | 98% (492) |
| 2022-23 | 485 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 99% (482) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 27.1 | 22.1:1 | 99% (595) |
| 2015-16 | 601 | 27 | 22.3:1 | 100% (601) |
| 2010-11 | 819 | 37 | 22.1:1 | 100% (816) |
| 2000-01 | 838 | 44 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 301 | 17 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Daley Elementary Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (598 to 511); teachers up 33% (27.1 to 36).
About Daley Elementary Academy
Daley Elementary Academy is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It had 511 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 34% higher.
District-wide, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Daley Elementary Academy is 87%. The remaining shares are 10% Black. Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 23%.
Its staff includes 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.2 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 13.9:1. Daley Elementary Academy has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 94%. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 28 points lower.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Daley Elementary Academy outscored 19%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
In Illinois, Daley Elementary Academy is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 17.2% actual against a predicted 17.2%.
In Cook County, home to about 5,182,090 people, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Hedges Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Daley Elementary Academy is 5th among 9 schools close by.
Daley Elementary Academy is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment was 511 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 549.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Daley Elementary Academy. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- Hedges Elementary School0.3 mi · 502
- Fulton Elementary School0.4 mi · 321
- Back of The Yards IB High School0.5 mi · 1,039
- Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct0.5 mi · 784
- Lara Elementary Academy0.5 mi · 362
- Richards Career Academy High School0.5 mi · 348
Frequently asked questions
About Daley Elementary AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Daley Elementary Academy?
Daley Elementary Academy enrolls approximately 511 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Daley Elementary Academy serve?
Daley Elementary Academy serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Daley Elementary Academy?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Daley Elementary Academy.
What is the student diversity at Daley Elementary Academy?
Student demographics at Daley Elementary Academy are roughly 2% White, 87% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is Daley Elementary Academy in?
Daley Elementary Academy is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.