Ellington Elem School

Ellington Elem School is an average-sized elementary-level community in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school works with 510 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 34% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Ellington Elem School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Ellington Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%). Beyond that, the school logs 16% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ellington Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.6%; this one delivers 14.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Ellington Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Austin College and Career Acad HS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ellington Elem School. On composite proficiency, Ellington Elem School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 14.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ellington Elem School has showed little movement, going from 515 students in 2018 to 510 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 96% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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