Dubois Elem School

Dubois Elem School operates as a cozy K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 201 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 47% below typical.

Dubois Elem School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that enrolls 324,396 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dubois Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Dubois Elem School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Dubois Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at Dubois Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dubois Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.6%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Dubois Elem School is one campus in the mix.

CICS - Bond Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dubois Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dubois Elem School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 14.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 234 students in 2018 compared to 201 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 1% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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