Durkin Park Elem School

Durkin Park Elem School is one of the high-enrollment primary schools in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 679 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Durkin Park Elem School sits 78% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Durkin Park Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Durkin Park Elem School records that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic; the rest reads as 10% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 80% of students at Durkin Park Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Durkin Park Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Durkin Park Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Stevenson Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Durkin Park Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Durkin Park Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 700 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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