Drake Elem School

Located at 2710 S Dearborn St, in Chicago, Illinois, Drake Elem School is a low-enrollment elementary school that works with 302 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Drake Elem School records that nearly all students (94%) are Black. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Drake Elem School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Drake Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.1%; this one delivers 15.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 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 Drake Elem School is one.

YCCS-McKinley-Lakeside Leadership is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Drake Elem School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Drake Elem School has declined 12%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 302 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.