Enrollment
272
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000706
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts
5415 S Union Ave, Chicago, IL 60609 · (773) 535-1666 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 57% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
9.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
261 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 36 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 27 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 21 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 25 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 20 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 27 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 25 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 8% larger than its 8th grade class (25).
Student demographics
24%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
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts→Tilden Career Communty Academy High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
53.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +27.2pp since 2023
Math
20.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 27 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.4% | 20.1% |
| 2023-24 | 26.2% | 13.4% |
% 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
31.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 16% 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 16 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 Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts's state test result (31.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts this school | 272 | 96.0% | 31.7% |
| Tanner Elementary School Chicago | 272 | 96.7% | 11.1% |
| Joplin Elementary School Chicago | 283 | 96.1% | 28.0% |
| Franklin Elementary School Dolton | 259 | 95.8% | 13.3% |
| Washington H Elementary School Chicago | 273 | 96.0% | 18.3% |
| Higgins Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 271 | 94.1% | 19.9% |
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 Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #1,214 of 1,925 | #372 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.1% | #1,598 of 2,077 ▼ 128 | #532 of 829 ▼ 56 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #887 of 2,077 ▲ 436 | #279 of 829 ▲ 186 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #1,695 of 2,419 | #698 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #98 of 2,035 | #58 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.9% | #1,524 of 2,042 | #570 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.0% | #121 of 2,132 | #93 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.9% | #102 of 1,461 | #65 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
272
-21 (-7%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 384
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 | 272 | 28 | 9.7:1 | 96% (261) |
| 2023-24 | 265 | 27 | 9.8:1 | 95% (253) |
| 2022-23 | 238 | 26 | 9.2:1 | 98% (234) |
| 2020-21 | 293 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 418 | 23.9 | 17.5:1 | 99% (414) |
| 2015-16 | 397 | 23 | 17.3:1 | 100% (397) |
| 2010-11 | 343 | 23 | 14.9:1 | 99% (340) |
| 2000-01 | 571 | 29 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 384 | 26 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (418 to 272); teachers up 17% (23.9 to 28).
About Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is the name of a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The school serves 272 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Illinois is roughly 381 students; this school is 29% smaller than that.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 is the district for Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts. It has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
Federal enrollment data show Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is 86% Black. The school is also 12% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 22%. The school's diversity index is 24%, meaning two students picked at random have a 24% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts operates with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 9.7:1. That is lower than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. About 96% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 30 points.
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is graded B by allk12, scoring above 57% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is +15.6 points, in the top 10% of Illinois. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 31.7%, and the predicted rate is 16.1%.
In Cook County (population about 5,182,090), the median household income is $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 1,406 public schools in Cook County, enrolling about 697,934 students in all.
Nearest public school: KIPP Chicago Chrtrs Bloom Campus, about 0.2 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts's average proficiency of 31.7% compares with 17.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is City: Large.
Enrollment dropped 7% from its 2020-21 level of 293.
The Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- KIPP Chicago Chrtrs Bloom Campus0.2 mi · 921
- Holmes Elementary School0.4 mi · 166
- Sherman Elementary School0.5 mi · 225
- Sherwood Elementary School0.6 mi · 204
- Tilden Career Communty Academy High School0.8 mi · 288
- Nicholson Tech Academy Elementary School0.8 mi · 487
Frequently asked questions
About Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine ArtsHow many students attend Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts?
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts enrolls approximately 272 students in grades PK-08.
Is Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts have?
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts?
Student demographics at Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts are roughly 1% White, 12% Hispanic, 86% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts in?
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.