Foster Park Elem School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Chicago, Illinois, Foster Park Elem School enrolls 345 students from grades pre-K through 8, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Foster Park Elem School logs that nearly all students (95%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Foster Park Elem School reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Foster Park Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Foster Park Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.6%, the actual is 17.7%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Foster Park Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Foster Park Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foster Park Elem School has ticked down 3%, going from 356 students in 2018 to 345 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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