Field Elem School

Located at 7019 N Ashland Blvd, in Chicago, Illinois, Field Elem School is an one-room-style 6-8 campus that serves 151 students (grades 5 through 8), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 67% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Field Elem School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 32% Black, 11% multiracial, 7% White, 5% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Field Elem School reports 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Field Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at Field Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Field Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.7%; this one delivers 23.9%.

Around the school, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Field Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chicago Math & Sci Elem Charter, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Field Elem School. On composite proficiency, Field Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 158 students in 2018 compared to 151 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 54% to 45%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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