Enrollment
265
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993004944
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr
4929 N Sawyer Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 · (773) 534-0540 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL265 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Illinois public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
13.3:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 29 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (29).
Student demographics
62%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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
96.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
93.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 96.6% | 93.8% |
| 2023-24 | 96.6% | 92.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
95.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 96% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 67% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr's state test result (95.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr this school | 265 | 8.7% | 95.8% |
| Robert Clow Elementary School Naperville | 343 | 12.8% | 71.0% |
| Countryside Elementary School Barrington | 375 | 12.5% | 68.8% |
| Stuart R Paddock School Palatine | 348 | 17.2% | 55.3% |
| Kingsley Elementary School Naperville | 415 | 16.4% | 72.9% |
| Wayne Elementary School Wayne | 391 | 18.2% | 58.9% |
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 Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 95.8% | #2 of 1,925 | #1 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.8% | #6 of 2,077 ▼ 4 | #4 of 829 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 96.6% | #4 of 2,077 ▼ 2 | #2 of 829 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 265 | #1,742 of 2,419 | #717 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #977 of 2,035 | #449 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #470 of 2,042 | #179 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.7% | #2,099 of 2,132 | #796 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.2% | #1,344 of 1,461 | #615 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
265
-51 (-16%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 249
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 | 265 | 20 | 13.3:1 | 9% (23) |
| 2023-24 | 265 | 18 | 14.7:1 | 11% (28) |
| 2022-23 | 267 | 15 | 17.8:1 | 10% (26) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 271 | 15.2 | 17.8:1 | 8% (23) |
| 2015-16 | 278 | 14 | 19.9:1 | 12% (34) |
| 2010-11 | 269 | 15 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
| 2000-01 | 271 | 17 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 249 | 15 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (271 to 265); teachers up 31% (15.2 to 20).
About Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr, a small elementary school, is located in Chicago, Illinois. The school runs kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 265 students. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
The district, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, has 324,396 students enrolled across 622 schools.
White students are 56% of those enrolled at Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr. Next come 19% Asian, 13% multiracial, and 10% Hispanic. That compares with about 44% White among all Cook County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
Based on 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr has a ratio of 13.3:1. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Income data for the school show 9% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 66% average for public schools in Cook County, the school's rate is lower.
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of Illinois public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr is +29.3 points, in the top 10% of Illinois. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 95.8%, and the predicted rate is 66.5%.
Cook County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cook County's 1,406 public schools enroll about 697,934 students and include Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Albany Park Multicultural Elementary School, is the closest to Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr. Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 37.4%, lower than Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr's 95.8%.
For locale, NCES codes Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr as City: Large.
Enrollment decreased 16% over 4 years, reaching 265 in 2024-25.
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
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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- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
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Nearby schools
- Albany Park Multicultural Elementary School0.0 mi · 243
- Hibbard Elementary School0.0 mi · 924
- Von Steuben Metro Science High School0.2 mi · 1,698
- Roosevelt High School0.5 mi · 1,144
- North River Elementary School0.7 mi · 315
- ASPIRA Charter - Haugan Campus0.7 mi · 83
Frequently asked questions
About Edison Elementary Regional Gifted CntrHow large is Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr?
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr enrolls approximately 265 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr serve?
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr have?
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr?
Student demographics at Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr are roughly 56% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black, 19% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr in?
Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Cntr is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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