Eberhart Elem School

Eberhart Elem School is one of the sizable K-5 schools in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 1,011 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Eberhart Elem School sits 165% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Eberhart Elem School logs that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Eberhart Elem School has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Eberhart Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.1%; this one delivers 19.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate 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%. Eberhart Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Marquette Elem School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Eberhart Elem School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 1,386 students in 2018 compared to 1,011 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.