Gresham Elem School

Gresham Elem School is a reasonably sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school serves 332 students in grades pre-K through 8.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gresham Elem School lists that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Gresham Elem School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Gresham Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gresham Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Gresham Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Jackson M Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Gresham Elem School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 14.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 326 students in 2018 compared to 332 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 2% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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