Grimes Elem School

Grimes Elem School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 368 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Grimes Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Grimes Elem School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grimes Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +11.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Grimes Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hancock College Preparatory HS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Grimes Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grimes Elem School has contracted 19%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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