Haley Elem Academy

Haley Elem Academy, a mid-sized primary school in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, instructs 458 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 20% above typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Haley Elem Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Haley Elem Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%); the rest breaks down as 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Haley Elem Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.9%, the actual is 18.6%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Haley Elem Academy is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Fenger Academy High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Haley Elem Academy. On composite proficiency, Haley Elem Academy comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Haley Elem Academy's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 458). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 99% to 88%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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