Enrollment
344
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000800
Graham A Elementary School
4436 S Union Ave, Chicago, IL 60609 · (773) 535-1308 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
307 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 | 23 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 32 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 13% larger than its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
55%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
Graham A 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
18.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.8pp since 2023
Math
6.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.1% | 6.5% |
| 2023-24 | 9.3% | 1.9% |
% 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
14.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Graham A Elementary School
Graham A Elementary School's state test result (14.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graham A Elementary School this school | 344 | 89.2% | 14.5% |
| Lincoln-Irving Elementary School Moline | 382 | 87.7% | 11.3% |
| Julia Lathrop Elementary School Rockford | 357 | 84.3% | 11.7% |
| Eastlawn Elementary School Rantoul | 276 | 89.1% | 7.3% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School East Moline | 353 | 94.6% | 12.5% |
| Taft Elementary School Joliet | 424 | 94.6% | 28.6% |
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 Graham A Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #1,770 of 1,925 | #669 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.5% | #2,001 of 2,077 ▲ 30 | #774 of 829 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #1,964 of 2,077 ▼ 17 | #780 of 829 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #1,293 of 2,419 | #534 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #136 of 2,035 | #80 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.4% | #732 of 2,042 | #259 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.2% | #295 of 2,132 | #214 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.1% | #568 of 1,461 | #321 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
344
-31 (-8%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 739
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 | 344 | 34 | 10.1:1 | 89% (307) |
| 2023-24 | 300 | 28 | 10.7:1 | 89% (268) |
| 2022-23 | 329 | 26.5 | 12.4:1 | 92% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 375 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 25.3 | 16.4:1 | 95% (393) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 23 | 20.6:1 | 95% (451) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 26 | 18.6:1 | 97% (471) |
| 2000-01 | 900 | 53 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 739 | 38 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Graham A Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (415 to 344); teachers up 35% (25.3 to 34).
About Graham A Elementary School
Graham A Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Illinois, located in Chicago. It reported 344 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25.
Graham A Elementary School is a school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The district has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
More than half of enrollment at Graham A Elementary School is Hispanic: 62%. The next largest groups are 19% White, 15% Black, and 2% Native American. The school's Hispanic share is 35 points above the 27% share among Cook County residents. The diversity index for Graham A Elementary School is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, Graham A Elementary School has a ratio of 10.1:1. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is 13.9:1. Income data for the school show 89% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 23 points.
Graham A Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (14.5%) and its predicted rate (20.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Cook County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
About 0.4 miles separate Graham A Elementary School from the closest public school, Tilden Career Communty Academy High School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Graham A Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 14.5% against a local average of 20.8%.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21, Graham A Elementary School enrolled 375 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 344.
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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
- Tilden Career Communty Academy High School0.4 mi · 288
- Hendricks Elementary Community Academy0.5 mi · 217
- Beethoven Elementary School0.9 mi · 333
- Sherman Elementary School1.0 mi · 225
- Hamline Elementary School1.0 mi · 582
- Bronzeville Classical Elementary School1.0 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About Graham A Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Graham A Elementary School?
Graham A Elementary School enrolls approximately 344 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Graham A Elementary School serve?
Graham A Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Graham A Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Graham A Elementary School is approximately 10.1:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Graham A Elementary School?
Graham A Elementary School reports a student body of 19% White, 62% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Graham A Elementary School?
Graham A Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
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