Davis M Magnet Elem School

Davis M Magnet Elem School is an one-room-style elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school teaches 120 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 69% leaner than typical.

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

On demographics, Davis M Magnet Elem School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%). The remainder breaks down as 19% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Davis M Magnet Elem School records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Davis M Magnet Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Davis M Magnet Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.4%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Davis M Magnet Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Montessori of Englewood Chtr ES, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davis M Magnet Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Davis M Magnet Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 19.3%.

Davis M Magnet Elem School operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Davis M Magnet Elem School has fell 52%, going from 249 students in 2018 to 120 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 7% to 19%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

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