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Enrollment
926
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000689
Dawes Elementary School
3810 W 81st Pl, Chicago, IL 60652 · (773) 535-2350 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL926 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
879 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 | 94 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 96 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 86 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 97 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (97).
Student demographics
31%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
Dawes Elementary School→Bogan 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
41.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +18.0pp since 2023
Math
21.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.1% | 21.8% |
| 2023-24 | 23.1% | 15.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 17% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Dawes Elementary School
Dawes Elementary School's state test result (30.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawes Elementary School this school | 926 | 94.9% | 30.6% |
| Tarkington Elementary School Chicago | 791 | 93.0% | 26.6% |
| Marquette Elementary School Chicago | 1,030 | 96.0% | 28.6% |
| Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy Chicago | 922 | 91.2% | 18.8% |
| Cameron Elementary School Chicago | 671 | 97.5% | 18.1% |
| Eberhart Elementary School Chicago | 1,011 | 94.3% | 19.4% |
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 Dawes Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #1,249 of 1,925 | #388 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #1,539 of 2,077 ▼ 141 | #505 of 829 ▼ 56 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #1,310 of 2,077 ▲ 141 | #445 of 829 ▲ 74 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 926 | #26 of 2,419 | #22 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,207 of 2,035 | #535 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.2% | #1,368 of 2,042 | #509 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.9% | #159 of 2,132 | #120 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #1,131 of 1,461 | #541 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
926
-58 (-6%) vs 2020
+45% since 1990-91, when it was 637
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 | 926 | 66.5 | 13.9:1 | 95% (879) |
| 2023-24 | 946 | 69.5 | 13.6:1 | 96% (907) |
| 2022-23 | 982 | 68.5 | 14.3:1 | 96% (943) |
| 2020-21 | 984 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 987 | 53.1 | 18.6:1 | 99% (982) |
| 2015-16 | 1,018 | 53 | 19.2:1 | 96% (981) |
| 2010-11 | 1,105 | 56 | 19.7:1 | 96% (1,063) |
| 2000-01 | 966 | 51 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 637 | 35 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dawes Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (987 to 926); teachers up 25% (53.1 to 66.5).
About Dawes Elementary School
Dawes Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Chicago, Illinois. Students in pre-K through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 926 students. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 143% larger than average.
In Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, 622 schools enroll a combined 324,396 students.
The share of students at Dawes Elementary School who are Hispanic is 81%. Other groups include 16% Black. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 27% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 31, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dawes Elementary School is 13.9:1, based on 66.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Dawes Elementary School counts 95% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Dawes Elementary School does better than predicted by 13.9 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 30.6%; the prediction is 16.7%.
The county, Cook County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Dawes Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Bogan High School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Dawes Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Dawes Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 6% from 2020-21 to 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
Other Dawes Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Dawes Elementary. Dawes Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Dawes Elementary SchoolEvanston, IL · 298 students
Nearby schools
- Bogan High School0.3 mi · 716
- Ashburn Community Elementary School0.4 mi · 324
- Owen Elementary Scholastic Academy0.6 mi · 281
- Hampton Elementary Fine & Perf Arts School0.7 mi · 463
- Durkin Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 679
- Stevenson Elementary School0.8 mi · 1,206
Frequently asked questions
About Dawes Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dawes Elementary School?
Dawes Elementary School enrolls approximately 926 students in grades PK-08.
Is Dawes Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dawes Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dawes Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dawes Elementary School is approximately 13.9:1 (67 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Dawes Elementary School?
Student demographics at Dawes Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 81% Hispanic, 16% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is Dawes Elementary School in?
Dawes Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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