Enrollment
298
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000774
Fort Dearborn Elementary School
9025 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60620 · (773) 535-2680 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
225 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 | 35 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 24 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 25 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 23 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 18 | 6% |
| Grade 8 | 38 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (24) is 37% smaller than its 8th grade class (38).
Student demographics
11%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
Fort Dearborn Elementary School→Harlan Community Academy High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
25.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.7pp since 2023
Math
9.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.9% | 9.8% |
| 2023-24 | 18.2% | 2.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Fort Dearborn Elementary School
Fort Dearborn Elementary School's state test result (16.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Dearborn Elementary School this school | 298 | 75.5% | 16.0% |
| Oglesby Elementary School Chicago | 293 | 76.5% | 13.9% |
| Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood Chicago | 304 | 77.6% | 35.5% |
| Green W Elementary School Chicago | 267 | 72.3% | 24.8% |
| Gillespie Elementary School Chicago | 288 | 79.9% | 18.2% |
| Woodgate Elementary School Matteson | 260 | 72.7% | 33.7% |
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 Fort Dearborn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #1,728 of 1,925 | #646 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.8% | #1,914 of 2,077 ▲ 100 | #717 of 829 ▲ 75 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #1,778 of 2,077 ▼ 136 | #678 of 829 ▼ 65 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #1,546 of 2,419 | #639 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #134 of 2,035 | #79 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.8% | #1,869 of 2,042 | #713 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.5% | #615 of 2,132 | #403 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #625 of 1,461 | #342 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
298
-67 (-18%) vs 2020
-68% since 1990-91, when it was 941
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 | 298 | 29.5 | 10.1:1 | 76% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 304 | 28.5 | 10.7:1 | 86% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 324 | 26 | 12.5:1 | 87% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 365 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 354 | 19.9 | 17.8:1 | 99% (349) |
| 2015-16 | 377 | 21 | 17.9:1 | 96% (363) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 24 | 21.5:1 | 99% (512) |
| 2000-01 | 954 | 45 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 941 | 48 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fort Dearborn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (354 to 298); teachers up 48% (19.9 to 29.5).
About Fort Dearborn Elementary School
Fort Dearborn Elementary School, located in Chicago, Illinois, is a low-enrollment elementary school. The school enrolls 298 students, from pre-K through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Illinois) has about 381 students.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 counts 324,396 students in its 622 schools, and Fort Dearborn Elementary School is one of them.
The student body at Fort Dearborn Elementary School is 94% Black. Other groups make up 5% Hispanic. County-wide, 22% of Cook County residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is an 11% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Fort Dearborn Elementary School counts 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 10.1 students for each one. On average, elementary schools in Illinois have 13.9:1, compared with 10.1:1 here. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 66% for public schools in Cook County.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, Fort Dearborn Elementary School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Fort Dearborn Elementary School is -11.9 points: 16.0% actual, 27.9% predicted.
Within Cook County, the median household income is $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%. In all, Cook County has 1,406 public schools and roughly 697,934 students.
The closest public school, Noble St Chtr-Hansberry Prep Slvr, is about 0.4 miles from Fort Dearborn Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Fort Dearborn Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Fort Dearborn Elementary School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Fort Dearborn Elementary School's enrollment dropped from 365 in 2020-21 to 298 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- Noble St Chtr-Hansberry Prep Slvr0.4 mi · 534
- Jackson M Elementary School0.5 mi · 305
- CICS - Longwood Campus0.6 mi · 1,137
- CICS - Loomis Primary Campus0.7 mi · 333
- Green W Elementary School0.7 mi · 267
- Gresham Elementary School0.8 mi · 332
Frequently asked questions
About Fort Dearborn Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fort Dearborn Elementary School?
Fort Dearborn Elementary School enrolls approximately 298 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Fort Dearborn Elementary School serve?
Fort Dearborn Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Fort Dearborn Elementary School?
Approximately 10.1:1 students per teacher at Fort Dearborn Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Fort Dearborn Elementary School?
Student demographics at Fort Dearborn Elementary School are roughly 5% Hispanic, 94% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Fort Dearborn Elementary School?
Fort Dearborn Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.