Enrollment
321
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000780
Fulton Elementary School
5300 S Hermitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60609 · (773) 535-9000 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL321 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
315 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 | 47 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 30 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 30 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 27 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 30 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 27 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 11% larger than its 8th grade class (27).
Student demographics
34%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
Fulton Elementary School→Tilden Career Communty 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
12.2%
IL avg 51.0% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
10.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 12 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 down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.2% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 13.5% | 6.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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 Fulton Elementary School
Fulton Elementary School's state test result (12.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton Elementary School this school | 321 | 98.1% | 12.7% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Chicago Heights | 353 | 98.9% | 33.6% |
| Christopher Elementary School Chicago | 315 | 95.9% | 17.0% |
| Isaac Singleton Elementary School Joliet | 304 | 95.1% | 18.9% |
| Woodland Elementary School Joliet | 368 | 95.1% | 19.7% |
| Evelyn Alexander School North Chicago | 354 | 98.3% | 2.5% |
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 Fulton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #1,821 of 1,925 | #706 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #1,903 of 2,077 ▼ 136 | #711 of 829 ▼ 76 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.2% | #2,048 of 2,077 ▼ 230 | #822 of 829 ▼ 114 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 321 | #1,421 of 2,419 | #587 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #200 of 2,035 | #121 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.9% | #1,306 of 2,042 | #486 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.1% | #66 of 2,132 | #45 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.7% | #1,212 of 1,461 | #569 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
321
-35 (-10%) vs 2020
-69% since 1990-91, when it was 1,052
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 | 321 | 30.5 | 10.5:1 | 98% (315) |
| 2023-24 | 329 | 28.5 | 11.5:1 | 88% (289) |
| 2022-23 | 297 | 28 | 10.6:1 | 98% (291) |
| 2020-21 | 356 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 337 | 20.1 | 16.7:1 | 99% (333) |
| 2015-16 | 411 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 99% (408) |
| 2010-11 | 486 | 32 | 15.2:1 | 99% (483) |
| 2000-01 | 912 | 41 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,052 | 52 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fulton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (337 to 321); teachers up 51% (20.1 to 30.5).
About Fulton Elementary School
Fulton Elementary School, located in Chicago, Illinois, is a small elementary school. In all, 321 students attend the school in pre-K through 8.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has a total of 622 schools and 324,396 students, Fulton Elementary School among them.
The student body at Fulton Elementary School is 79% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 19% Black. Among all residents of Cook County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 34%.
Its staff includes 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.5 students per teacher. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 3.4 students per teacher. Roughly 98% of students at Fulton Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is 32 points above the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Fulton Elementary School would score about 14.8%. It scores 12.7%, 2.2 points below that figure.
In Cook County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
CICS - Basil Campus is about 0.2 miles from Fulton Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Fulton Elementary School ranks 8th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 35 students, from 356 to 321.
Fulton Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates 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
Other Fulton Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Fulton Elementary. Fulton Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 8.
- Fulton Elementary SchoolFulton, IL · 421 students
- Fulton ElementaryFulton, MD · 872 students
- Fulton Elementary SchoolFULTON, TX · 619 students
- Fulton Elementary SchoolSpringfield, OH · 444 students
- Fulton Elementary SchoolEphrata, PA · 297 students
Nearby schools
- CICS - Basil Campus0.2 mi · 541
- Daley Elementary Academy0.4 mi · 511
- Libby Elementary School0.5 mi · 275
- Henderson Elementary School0.5 mi · 246
- Richards Career Academy High School0.5 mi · 348
- Horizon Sci Academy - Southwest Chtr0.7 mi · 712
Frequently asked questions
About Fulton Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Fulton Elementary School?
Fulton Elementary School enrolls approximately 321 students in grades PK-08.
Is Fulton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Fulton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Fulton Elementary School have?
Fulton Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fulton Elementary School?
At Fulton Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 79% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Fulton Elementary School?
Fulton Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
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