Decatur Classical Elem School

Located at 7030 N Sacramento Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Decatur Classical Elem School is a medium-sized elementary-level community that hosts 341 students (grades K through 8), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

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

Looking at the student body, Decatur Classical Elem School logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 28% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Decatur Classical Elem School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.6%; Decatur Classical Elem School posts 95.3%, +30.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Decatur Classical Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

West Ridge Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Decatur Classical Elem School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Decatur Classical Elem School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 38.9%.

Decatur Classical Elem School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Decatur Classical Elem School has ticked up 21%, going from 281 students in 2018 to 341 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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