Drexel Elem School

Located at 5407 W 36th St, in Cicero, Illinois, Drexel Elem School is a medium-sized elementary-level community that teaches 396 students (grades K through 6), part of Cicero SD 99.

Drexel Elem School is one of 15 schools operated by Cicero SD 99, a district that enrolls 8,664 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Drexel Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 71% of students at Drexel Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Drexel Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -1.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports 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 Drexel Elem School is one.

District 99 Early Childhood Ctr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Drexel Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Drexel Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 22.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Drexel Elem School has decreased 28%, going from 549 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 91% to 97% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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