Garvey M Elem School

As a small elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, Garvey M Elem School works with 262 students from grades pre-K through 8, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Garvey M Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Garvey M Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Garvey M Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Garvey M Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.0%; this one delivers 20.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Garvey M Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Mount Vernon Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garvey M Elem School. On composite proficiency, Garvey M Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Garvey M Elem School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 247 (now 262). The Black share of enrollment fell from 99% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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