Earle Elem School

Earle Elem School is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 286 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Earle Elem School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Earle Elem School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Earle Elem School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Earle Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 14.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.6%.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Earle Elem School is one.

Lindblom Math & Science Acad HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Earle Elem School. On composite proficiency, Earle Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 415 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 93% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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