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Enrollment
411
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993005985
Edison Park Elementary School
6220 N Olcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60631 · (773) 534-0960 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL411 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
54 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 34 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 31% smaller than its 8th grade class (49).
Student demographics
48%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
Edison Park Elementary School→Taft 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
73.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +23.7pp since 2023
Math
49.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +14.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 24 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 49.1% |
| 2023-24 | 49.3% | 34.2% |
% 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
57.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Edison Park Elementary School
Edison Park Elementary School's state test result (57.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Park Elementary School this school | 411 | 13.1% | 57.6% |
| Roslyn Road Elementary School Barrington | 447 | 12.5% | 70.1% |
| Prairie Point Elementary School Oswego | 455 | 17.1% | 57.3% |
| Alice Gustafson Elementary School Batavia | 403 | 14.1% | 60.3% |
| Hamilton Elementary School Chicago | 486 | 11.7% | 72.2% |
| Hunt Club Elementary School Oswego | 357 | 17.4% | 44.3% |
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 Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #382 of 1,925 | #115 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #689 of 2,077 ▼ 15 | #207 of 829 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #278 of 2,077 ▲ 229 | #103 of 829 ▲ 71 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 411 | #952 of 2,419 | #410 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #395 of 2,035 | #214 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.2% | #962 of 2,042 | #350 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.1% | #2,058 of 2,132 | #776 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.9% | #320 of 1,461 | #199 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
411
-84 (-17%) vs 2020
+8% since 2010-11, when it was 379
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 | 411 | 35.8 | 11.5:1 | 13% (54) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 38.8 | 11.1:1 | 18% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 534 | 38 | 14.1:1 | 17% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 495 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 540 | 31 | 17.4:1 | 17% (92) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 28 | 19.5:1 | 19% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 21 | 18.1:1 | 15% (56) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edison Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (540 to 411); teachers up 15% (31 to 35.8).
About Edison Park Elementary School
The public elementary school Edison Park Elementary School is located in Chicago, Illinois. The school teaches kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 411 students.
Edison Park Elementary School is one of 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which enrolls 324,396 students in total.
About 68% of the student body at Edison Park Elementary School is White. The remaining students are 24% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Among people living in Cook County, the White share is about 44%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 48%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Edison Park Elementary School is 11.5:1, based on 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is higher. Edison Park Elementary School counts 13% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 66% average for public schools in Cook County, the school's rate is lower.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Edison Park Elementary School, the prediction is 63.9% and the result is 57.6%.
American Community Survey estimates for Cook County show that median household income comes to about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, Norwood Park Elementary School, is the closest to Edison Park Elementary School. Edison Park Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Edison Park Elementary School comes in 5th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Edison Park Elementary School is City: Large.
In 2020-21, Edison Park Elementary School enrolled 495 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 411.
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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
- Norwood Park Elementary School0.7 mi · 314
- Ebinger Elementary School0.8 mi · 693
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School1.1 mi · 677
- Oriole Park Elementary School1.1 mi · 617
- Onahan Elementary School1.1 mi · 657
- Taft High School1.3 mi · 4,487
Frequently asked questions
About Edison Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Edison Park Elementary School?
Edison Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 411 students in grades KG-08.
Is Edison Park Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Edison Park Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Edison Park Elementary School have?
Edison Park Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Edison Park Elementary School?
At Edison Park Elementary School, the student body is approximately 68% White, 24% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Edison Park Elementary School public or private?
Edison Park Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.