Enrollment
373
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000773
Fiske Elementary School
6020 S Langley Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 · (773) 535-0990 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL373 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
280 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 33 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 26 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 36 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 8% smaller than its 8th grade class (36).
Student demographics
14%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
Fiske Elementary School→Hyde Park 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
14.7%
IL avg 51.0% . -0.6pp since 2023
Math
4.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 15 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.7% | 4.5% |
| 2023-24 | 15.3% | 2.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
9.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 28% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Fiske Elementary School
Fiske Elementary School's state test result (9.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiske Elementary School this school | 373 | 75.1% | 9.7% |
| Westcott Elementary School Chicago | 387 | 76.7% | 12.8% |
| Dixon Elementary School Chicago | 412 | 75.2% | 31.7% |
| Ariel Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 364 | 71.2% | 19.6% |
| Illinois School Park Forest | 391 | 79.3% | 37.1% |
| Depriest Elementary School Chicago | 419 | 76.4% | 8.4% |
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 Fiske Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.7% | #1,886 of 1,925 | #738 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 4.5% | #2,040 of 2,077 ▼ 55 | #804 of 829 ▼ 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #2,016 of 2,077 ▼ 270 | #808 of 829 ▼ 137 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 373 | #1,135 of 2,419 | #471 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #696 of 2,035 | #328 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.2% | #1,783 of 2,042 | #670 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.1% | #625 of 2,132 | #409 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.1% | #481 of 1,461 | #279 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
373
-20 (-5%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 526
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 | 373 | 30 | 12.4:1 | 75% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 385 | 33 | 11.7:1 | 81% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 343 | 30 | 11.4:1 | 85% (291) |
| 2020-21 | 393 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 461 | 26.9 | 17.1:1 | 99% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 488 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 99% (484) |
| 2010-11 | 283 | 17 | 16.6:1 | 99% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 28 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 526 | 29 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fiske Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (461 to 373); teachers up 11% (26.9 to 30).
About Fiske Elementary School
Students in Chicago, Illinois, attend Fiske Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 8 and enrolls 373 students.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 serves 324,396 students across 622 schools.
The share of students at Fiske Elementary School who are Black is 92%. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 22% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 14, compared with 70 nationally.
With 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.4:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Roughly 75% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Fiske Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 18.5 points (9.7% versus 28.2%), a bottom-10% result in Illinois on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Cook County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Of the public schools around it, Fiske Elementary School is closest to Dulles Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Fiske Elementary School is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Fiske Elementary School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 5% from 2020-21 to 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
Nearby schools
- Dulles Elementary School0.6 mi · 651
- CICS - Washington Pk Campus0.6 mi · 493
- Till Elementary Math & Science Academy0.7 mi · 370
- Univ of Chicago Chtr-Woodlawn0.7 mi · 591
- Wadsworth Elementary School0.7 mi · 487
- Carter Elementary School0.8 mi · 279
Frequently asked questions
About Fiske Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fiske Elementary School?
Fiske Elementary School enrolls approximately 373 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Fiske Elementary School serve?
Fiske Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Fiske Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Fiske Elementary School is approximately 12.4:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fiske Elementary School?
At Fiske Elementary School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 5% Hispanic, 92% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Fiske Elementary School public or private?
Fiske Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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