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What's the biggest difference between Hale Elem School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
791
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000819
Hale Elementary School
6140 S Melvina Ave, Chicago, IL 60638 · (773) 535-2265 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL791 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
534 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 | 21 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 28% smaller than its 8th grade class (108).
Student demographics
30%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
Hale Elementary School→Kennedy 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
42.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.5pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.7% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.2% | 19.0% |
% 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
35.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Hale Elementary School
Hale Elementary School's state test result (35.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hale Elementary School this school | 791 | 67.5% | 35.5% |
| Coleman Elementary School Elgin | 641 | 70.2% | 21.4% |
| C M Bardwell Elementary School Aurora | 679 | 67.2% | 12.6% |
| Lords Park Elementary School Elgin | 655 | 71.3% | 23.1% |
| Prairie Oak School Berwyn | 698 | 72.1% | 39.8% |
| Barbour Two-Way Lang Immersion Rockford | 628 | 72.1% | 29.7% |
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 Hale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #1,076 of 1,925 | #311 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #1,390 of 2,077 ▼ 165 | #433 of 829 ▼ 59 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #1,257 of 2,077 ▼ 170 | #417 of 829 ▼ 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 791 | #62 of 2,419 | #45 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #1,645 of 2,035 | #693 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.4% | #1,388 of 2,042 | #518 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.5% | #795 of 2,132 | #478 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #669 of 1,461 | #359 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
791
-64 (-7%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 558
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 | 791 | 51 | 15.5:1 | 68% (534) |
| 2023-24 | 792 | 53 | 14.9:1 | 67% (534) |
| 2022-23 | 813 | 53 | 15.3:1 | 66% (534) |
| 2020-21 | 855 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 928 | 47.9 | 19.4:1 | 71% (655) |
| 2015-16 | 917 | 45 | 20.4:1 | 75% (688) |
| 2010-11 | 887 | 45 | 19.7:1 | 73% (644) |
| 2000-01 | 731 | 40 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 558 | 39 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (928 to 791); teachers up 7% (47.9 to 51).
About Hale Elementary School
The public elementary school Hale Elementary School is located in Chicago, Illinois. The school offers pre-K through 8 and enrolls 791 students. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average enrollment is about 381.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 serves 324,396 students across 622 schools.
Hispanic students are 83% of those enrolled at Hale Elementary School. The next largest groups are 11% White and 5% Black. In Cook County overall, about 27% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 30% means there is a 30% chance two randomly chosen students at Hale Elementary School are from different groups.
Teacher count: 51 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.5:1. Compared with the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 68%. The figure for public schools in Cook County is close, at 66%.
In Illinois, Hale Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 35.5% actual against a predicted 32.5%.
The school is in Cook County, where median household income comes to about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
Kinzie Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Hale Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 855 students in 2020-21 to 791 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Hale Elementary School lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
Other Hale Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Hale Elementary. Hale Elementary School is the largest of the 6.
- Hale Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 477 students
- Hale ElementaryMINNEAPOLIS, MN · 326 students
- Hale Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 294 students
- Hale Elementary SchoolRoxbury, MA · 162 students
- HALE ELEMENTARYHALE, MO · 30 students
Nearby schools
- Kinzie Elementary School0.6 mi · 637
- Blair Early Childhood Center0.7 mi · 164
- Kennedy High School0.7 mi · 1,647
- Grimes Elementary School1.0 mi · 368
- Hancock College Preparatory High School1.0 mi · 1,050
- Byrne Elementary School1.2 mi · 619
Frequently asked questions
About Hale Elementary SchoolHow large is Hale Elementary School?
Hale Elementary School enrolls approximately 791 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Hale Elementary School serve?
Hale Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Hale Elementary School?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at Hale Elementary School.
How diverse is Hale Elementary School?
Hale Elementary School reports a student body of 11% White, 83% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Hale Elementary School?
Hale Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.