Falconer Elem School

Falconer Elem School, an expansive K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, hosts 846 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Falconer Elem School sits 122% larger than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Falconer Elem School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Falconer Elem School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest comes out to 3% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Falconer Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Falconer Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Foreman High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Falconer Elem School. On composite proficiency, Falconer Elem School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 20.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Falconer Elem School has shrank 29%, going from 1,190 students in 2018 to 846 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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