Green W Elem School

Green W Elem School is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, hosting 267 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Green W Elem School sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Green W Elem School shows that nearly all students (94%) are Black. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Green W Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.8%, the actual is 24.8%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Green W Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

CICS - Longwood Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Green W Elem School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

Green W Elem School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Green W Elem School has contracted 27%, going from 365 students in 2018 to 267 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.