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Enrollment
511
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000643
De Diego Elementary Community Academy
1313 N Claremont Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 · (773) 534-4451 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL511 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% 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.
- DBeats 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
11.4:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
409 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 | 81 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 37% smaller than its 8th grade class (54).
Student demographics
48%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
De Diego Elementary Community Academy→Clemente Community 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
21.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.6pp since 2023
Math
10.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.6% | 10.3% |
| 2023-24 | 11.0% | 3.0% |
% 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
14.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 De Diego Elementary Community Academy
De Diego Elementary Community Academy's state test result (14.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Diego Elementary Community Academy this school | 511 | 80.0% | 14.1% |
| Harriet Gifford Elementary School Elgin | 460 | 79.1% | 22.4% |
| Clay Elementary School Chicago | 578 | 82.4% | 23.3% |
| Washington Elementary School Rockford | 523 | 83.0% | 13.2% |
| Carman-Buckner Elementary School Waukegan | 509 | 82.3% | 12.6% |
| Swan Hillman Elementary School Rockford | 581 | 74.5% | 27.3% |
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 De Diego Elementary Community Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.1% | #1,781 of 1,925 | #679 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.3% | #1,886 of 2,077 ▲ 78 | #700 of 829 ▲ 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #1,887 of 2,077 ▲ 14 | #743 of 829 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 511 | #510 of 2,419 | #250 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #358 of 2,035 | #191 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.6% | #973 of 2,042 | #357 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.0% | #508 of 2,132 | #349 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #978 of 1,461 | #485 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
+69 (+16%) vs 2020
-64% since 1990-91, when it was 1,425
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 | 45 | 11.4:1 | 80% (409) |
| 2023-24 | 518 | 44.5 | 11.6:1 | 84% (434) |
| 2022-23 | 417 | 42.5 | 9.8:1 | 89% (372) |
| 2020-21 | 442 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 561 | 40.5 | 13.8:1 | 92% (516) |
| 2015-16 | 683 | 42 | 16.3:1 | 92% (626) |
| 2010-11 | 906 | 44 | 20.6:1 | 90% (814) |
| 2000-01 | 1,483 | 78 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,425 | 77 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for De Diego Elementary Community Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (561 to 511); teachers up 11% (40.5 to 45).
About De Diego Elementary Community Academy
De Diego Elementary Community Academy is a medium-sized elementary school based in Chicago, Illinois. A federal count lists 511 students at the school, in pre-K through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Illinois) has about 381 students.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 oversees De Diego Elementary Community Academy and 621 other schools, with 324,396 students in total.
At 68%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at De Diego Elementary Community Academy combined. Smaller groups are 23% Black and 5% White. County-wide, 27% of Cook County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at De Diego Elementary Community Academy belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 48%.
At De Diego Elementary Community Academy, 45 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.4:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Roughly 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Cook County averages 66%, lower than here.
De Diego Elementary Community Academy is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at De Diego Elementary Community Academy are 11.2 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (14.1% actual, 25.3% predicted).
Cook County has about 5,182,090 residents, and median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Cook County number 1,406 and enroll about 697,934.
Sabin Elementary Magnet School is located about 0.2 miles from De Diego Elementary Community Academy. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, De Diego Elementary Community Academy ranks 5th on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 511, 16% above the 442 of 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for De Diego Elementary Community Academy covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- Sabin Elementary Magnet School0.2 mi · 354
- Clemente Community Academy High School0.2 mi · 745
- Pritzker Elementary School0.4 mi · 674
- Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps0.4 mi · 224
- Erie Elementary Charter School0.5 mi · 405
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Elementary0.5 mi · 260
Frequently asked questions
About De Diego Elementary Community AcademyHow large is De Diego Elementary Community Academy?
De Diego Elementary Community Academy enrolls approximately 511 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does De Diego Elementary Community Academy serve?
De Diego Elementary Community Academy serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at De Diego Elementary Community Academy?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at De Diego Elementary Community Academy.
What is the racial breakdown of students at De Diego Elementary Community Academy?
At De Diego Elementary Community Academy, the student body is approximately 5% White, 68% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is De Diego Elementary Community Academy public or private?
De Diego Elementary Community Academy is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.