Depriest Elem School

Depriest Elem School is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, works with 419 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Depriest Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Depriest Elem School records that nearly all students (87%) are Black. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Depriest Elem School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 27.4%; this one comes in at 8.4%, -19.0 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Depriest Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Depriest Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Depriest Elem School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Depriest Elem School has contracted 22%, going from 537 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.