Faraday Elem School

Faraday Elem School is a tight-knit K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school serves 178 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Faraday Elem School sits 53% below that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Faraday Elem School logs that nearly all students (89%) are Black. Other groups include 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Faraday Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Faraday Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.7%; this one delivers 18.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Faraday Elem School is one.

Marshall Metropolitan High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Faraday Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 36%: 280 students in 2018 compared to 178 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 98% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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