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Enrollment
1,011
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000739
Eberhart Elementary School
3400 W 65th Pl, Chicago, IL 60629 · (773) 535-9190 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,011 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
953 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 53 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 128 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 101 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 102 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 136 | 13% |
| Grade 9 | 3 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 37% smaller than its 8th grade class (136).
Student demographics
8%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
Eberhart Elementary School→Hubbard High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
26.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.3pp since 2023
Math
13.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.9% | 13.1% |
| 2023-24 | 13.6% | 6.3% |
% 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
19.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Eberhart Elementary School
Eberhart Elementary School's state test result (19.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eberhart Elementary School this school | 1,011 | 94.3% | 19.4% |
| Hanson Park Elementary School Chicago | 1,125 | 93.3% | 31.2% |
| Sawyer Elementary School Chicago | 885 | 95.9% | 22.2% |
| Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy Chicago | 922 | 91.2% | 18.8% |
| Nightingale Elementary School Chicago | 917 | 90.6% | 24.1% |
| Lloyd Elementary School Chicago | 844 | 91.7% | 21.7% |
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 Eberhart Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.4% | #1,625 of 1,925 | #578 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #1,792 of 2,077 ▲ 3 | #641 of 829 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #1,747 of 2,077 ▲ 63 | #654 of 829 ▲ 50 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,011 | #19 of 2,419 | #17 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #1,537 of 2,035 | #665 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.2% | #1,927 of 2,042 | #745 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #175 of 2,132 | #130 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.1% | #230 of 1,461 | #147 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
1,011
-174 (-15%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 689
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 | 1,011 | 67.3 | 15.0:1 | 94% (953) |
| 2023-24 | 1,016 | 67 | 15.2:1 | 95% (970) |
| 2022-23 | 1,037 | 69 | 15.0:1 | 94% (970) |
| 2020-21 | 1,185 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,386 | 65.5 | 21.2:1 | 96% (1,324) |
| 2015-16 | 1,471 | 73 | 20.1:1 | 97% (1,432) |
| 2010-11 | 1,792 | 82 | 21.9:1 | 97% (1,745) |
| 2000-01 | 1,554 | 72 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 689 | 29 | 23.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Eberhart Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (1,386 to 1,011); teachers up 3% (65.5 to 67.3).
About Eberhart Elementary School
Eberhart Elementary School is a large elementary school for students in Chicago, Illinois. It enrolled 1,011 students in pre-K through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students each.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 324,396 students spread across 622 schools.
The large majority of students at Eberhart Elementary School, 96%, are Hispanic. Next come 2% Black. The county population is about 27% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Eberhart Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 8%.
Federal staffing data show 67.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Eberhart Elementary School and a ratio of 15.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, lower than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 94% of enrollment. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 28 points lower.
On BeatsExpectations, Eberhart Elementary School is 2.3 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
Within Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Cook County number 1,406 and enroll about 697,934.
The nearest public school is Marquette Elementary School, at about 0.6 miles. Eberhart Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Eberhart Elementary School comes in 6th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Eberhart Elementary School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Eberhart Elementary School went from 1,185 students to 1,011.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- 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
Other schools in Chicago
- 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
- Marquette Elementary School0.6 mi · 1,030
- Hubbard High School0.6 mi · 1,710
- Tarkington Elementary School0.7 mi · 791
- Hurley Elementary School0.8 mi · 748
- Catalyst Charter - Maria Elementary School0.9 mi · 1,107
- Monarcas Academy0.9 mi · 797
Frequently asked questions
About Eberhart Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Eberhart Elementary School?
Eberhart Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,011 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Eberhart Elementary School serve?
Eberhart Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Eberhart Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Eberhart Elementary School is approximately 15.0:1 (67 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Eberhart Elementary School?
At Eberhart Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Eberhart Elementary School?
Eberhart Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
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