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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000797
Goudy Technology Academy
5120 N Winthrop Ave, Chicago, IL 60640 · (773) 534-2480 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.3:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
404 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 25 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 54 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (54).
Student demographics
73%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
Goudy Technology Academy→Senn 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
50.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +20.9pp since 2023
Math
38.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 21 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.2% | 38.6% |
| 2023-24 | 29.3% | 23.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
40.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 24% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Goudy Technology Academy
Goudy Technology Academy's state test result (40.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goudy Technology Academy this school | 491 | 82.3% | 40.8% |
| Swift Elementary Specialty School Chicago | 533 | 86.7% | 28.3% |
| Asian Human Srvcs-Passage Chrtr Chicago | 379 | 92.3% | 17.2% |
| Hayt Elementary School Chicago | 851 | 82.0% | 31.1% |
| West Ridge Elementary School Chicago | 683 | 84.8% | 33.1% |
| Mosaic School of Fine Arts Chicago | 746 | 88.9% | 28.0% |
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 Goudy Technology Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #888 of 1,925 | #235 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #1,004 of 2,077 ▲ 55 | #294 of 829 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #996 of 2,077 ▲ 211 | #322 of 829 ▲ 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #585 of 2,419 | #284 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #344 of 2,035 | #185 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.5% | #67 of 2,042 | #30 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.3% | #466 of 2,132 | #321 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.5% | #148 of 1,461 | #94 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
491
-135 (-22%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 711
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 | 491 | 43.5 | 11.3:1 | 82% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 549 | 42.5 | 12.9:1 | 83% (453) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 44.5 | 12.4:1 | 80% (443) |
| 2020-21 | 626 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 717 | 38.4 | 18.7:1 | 91% (649) |
| 2015-16 | 733 | 43 | 17.1:1 | 92% (675) |
| 2010-11 | 752 | 43 | 17.5:1 | 96% (722) |
| 2000-01 | 951 | 48 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 711 | 33 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Goudy Technology Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (717 to 491); teachers up 13% (38.4 to 43.5).
About Goudy Technology Academy
Among the schools in Chicago, Illinois, is Goudy Technology Academy, a mid-sized elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 491 students in 2024-25. The school is 29% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Enrollment across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 totals 324,396 students.
The student body at Goudy Technology Academy has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 32%. The next largest groups are 31% Black, 27% Asian, 7% White, and 3% multiracial. A diversity index of 73% means there is a 73% chance two randomly chosen students at Goudy Technology Academy are from different groups.
Goudy Technology Academy has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1, with 43.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 82% at Goudy Technology Academy. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
On the allk12 Grade, Goudy Technology Academy lands at B+, ahead of 70% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Goudy Technology Academy scores 16.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 40.8% actual versus 24.0% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Cook County show median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, McCutcheon Elementary School, is about 0.4 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Goudy Technology Academy is 2nd on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
In 2020-21, Goudy Technology Academy enrolled 626 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 491.
People who know Goudy Technology Academy can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- McCutcheon Elementary School0.4 mi · 326
- Peirce Elementary Intl Studies School0.7 mi · 1,116
- Uplift Community High School0.8 mi · 224
- YCCS-Truman Middle College High School0.8 mi · 192
- Asian Human Srvcs-Passage Chrtr0.8 mi · 379
- Swift Elementary Specialty School0.9 mi · 533
Frequently asked questions
About Goudy Technology AcademyHow large is Goudy Technology Academy?
Goudy Technology Academy enrolls approximately 491 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Goudy Technology Academy serve?
Goudy Technology Academy serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Goudy Technology Academy have?
Goudy Technology Academy employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Goudy Technology Academy?
Student demographics at Goudy Technology Academy are roughly 7% White, 32% Hispanic, 31% Black, 27% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Goudy Technology Academy public or private?
Goudy Technology Academy is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.