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Enrollment
510
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000748
Ellington Elementary School
243 N Parkside Ave, Chicago, IL 60644 · (773) 534-6361 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL510 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
485 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 | 86 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 42 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 42 | 8% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 10 | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 40% larger than its 8th grade class (42).
Student demographics
29%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
Ellington Elementary School→Austin College and Career Academy 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
25.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +15.8pp since 2023
Math
5.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.9% | 5.0% |
| 2023-24 | 10.1% | 2.9% |
% 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
14.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% 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 Ellington Elementary School
Ellington Elementary School's state test result (14.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellington Elementary School this school | 510 | 95.1% | 14.2% |
| Nicholson Tech Academy Elementary School Chicago | 487 | 92.4% | 11.8% |
| Haley Elementary Academy Chicago | 458 | 98.0% | 18.6% |
| Barack H Obama Learning Academy Markham | 466 | 99.6% | 10.4% |
| Herzl Elementary School Chicago | 429 | 97.2% | 4.0% |
| CICS - Basil Campus Chicago | 541 | 92.8% | 36.9% |
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 Ellington Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.2% | #1,778 of 1,925 | #676 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.0% | #2,032 of 2,077 ▼ 57 | #797 of 829 ▼ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #1,777 of 2,077 ▲ 142 | #677 of 829 ▲ 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 510 | #515 of 2,419 | #252 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #862 of 2,035 | #403 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.0% | #1,420 of 2,042 | #526 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.1% | #150 of 2,132 | #114 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.0% | #1,417 of 1,461 | #644 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
510
+60 (+13%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 421
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 | 510 | 39.5 | 12.9:1 | 95% (485) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 41.5 | 12.1:1 | 92% (462) |
| 2022-23 | 425 | 38.5 | 11.0:1 | 94% (398) |
| 2020-21 | 450 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 36.8 | 14.0:1 | 97% (502) |
| 2015-16 | 693 | 44 | 15.8:1 | 98% (680) |
| 2010-11 | 392 | 22 | 17.8:1 | 99% (389) |
| 2000-01 | 740 | 39 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 421 | 25 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ellington Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (515 to 510); teachers up 7% (36.8 to 39.5).
About Ellington Elementary School
Ellington Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It reported 510 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 34% above average.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 622 schools and 324,396 students, and Ellington Elementary School is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Ellington Elementary School, about 83 are Black. The remaining students are 16% Hispanic. Census figures show Cook County is about 22% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 29, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Ellington Elementary School, giving a ratio of 12.9:1. Elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1, 1.0 more students per teacher than here. A total of 485 students, or 95%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 16.6% at Ellington Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 14.2%.
For Cook County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
Among nearby public schools, Austin College and Career Academy High School is closest at about 0.2 miles. Ellington Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 14.2% average proficiency ranks 4th among 8 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 450 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 510 by 2024-25.
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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
Other Ellington Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Ellington Elementary. Ellington Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Ellington Elementary SchoolWagoner, OK · 561 students
- ELLINGTON ELEMENTARYELLINGTON, MO · 202 students
Nearby schools
- Austin College and Career Academy High School0.2 mi · 190
- Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock Elementary School0.2 mi · 512
- Douglass Academy High School0.3 mi · 29
- Depriest Elementary School0.5 mi · 419
- Moving Everest Charter School0.6 mi · 755
- Howe Elementary School0.7 mi · 341
Frequently asked questions
About Ellington Elementary SchoolHow large is Ellington Elementary School?
Ellington Elementary School enrolls approximately 510 students in grades PK-08.
Is Ellington Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ellington Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Ellington Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Ellington Elementary School.
How diverse is Ellington Elementary School?
Ellington Elementary School reports a student body of 16% Hispanic, 83% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Ellington Elementary School public or private?
Ellington 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.