Enrollment
276
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000737
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School
3615 W 16th St, Chicago, IL 60623 · (773) 534-1690 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL276 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of Illinois public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
245 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 | 16 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 24 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 15 | 5% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 25 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 30 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 36 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (24) is 33% smaller than its 8th grade class (36).
Student demographics
33%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
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School→Farragut Career 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
21.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.2pp since 2023
Math
4.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 4 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.6% | 4.1% |
| 2023-24 | 9.4% | 3.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
10.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School's state test result (10.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School this school | 276 | 88.8% | 10.9% |
| Beethoven Elementary School Chicago | 333 | 91.3% | 8.2% |
| Mohawk Primary Center Park Forest | 283 | 84.5% | 32.5% |
| Anne M Jeans Elementary School Willowbrook | 277 | 89.2% | 31.9% |
| McNair Elementary School Chicago | 328 | 89.3% | 13.9% |
| Hefferan Elementary School Chicago | 214 | 89.3% | 9.2% |
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 Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.9% | #1,861 of 1,925 | #728 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 4.1% | #2,048 of 2,077 ▼ 101 | #808 of 829 ▼ 61 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #1,888 of 2,077 ▲ 55 | #744 of 829 ▲ 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 276 | #1,677 of 2,419 | #691 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #340 of 2,035 | #183 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.5% | #1,320 of 2,042 | #492 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.8% | #314 of 2,132 | #224 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.4% | #190 of 1,461 | #120 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
276
-64 (-19%) vs 2020
-63% since 1990-91, when it was 751
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 | 276 | 24.5 | 11.3:1 | 89% (245) |
| 2023-24 | 281 | 24 | 11.7:1 | 89% (250) |
| 2022-23 | 274 | 22.5 | 12.2:1 | 97% (266) |
| 2020-21 | 340 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 391 | 21.8 | 17.9:1 | 98% (385) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 26 | 17.6:1 | 99% (454) |
| 2010-11 | 552 | 28 | 19.7:1 | 99% (549) |
| 2000-01 | 740 | 31 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 751 | 34 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (391 to 276); teachers up 12% (21.8 to 24.5).
About Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School is a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It covers pre-K through 8, with a total enrollment of 276 students. Enrollment is 28% lower than the average for elementary schools in Illinois, which is about 381.
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School is one school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a system of 622 schools with 324,396 students.
Black students are the majority at Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School, with 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic. The county population is about 22% Black. Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School's diversity index is 33%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 11.3 students per teacher. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 89%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
The allk12 Grade for Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School is F. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 4% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School is -9.3 points: 10.9% actual, 20.3% predicted.
Federal survey data for Cook County show that 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%. Cook County is home to 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 public school students.
The closest public school, Herzl Elementary School, is about 0.3 miles from Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School is 4th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 64 fewer students in 2024-25.
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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
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Other schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
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- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
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- 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
- Herzl Elementary School0.3 mi · 429
- KIPP Chicago Chrtrs - Ascend Academy0.3 mi · 897
- Penn Elementary School0.3 mi · 218
- Lawndale Elementary Community Academy0.4 mi · 191
- North Lawndale Prep Chtr - Christ0.4 mi · 258
- Legacy Elementary Charter School0.4 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School?
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School enrolls approximately 276 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School serve?
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School.
How diverse is Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School?
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 19% Hispanic, 79% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School?
Dvorak Technology Academy Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.