Hammond Elem School

As a compact elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, Hammond Elem School enrolls 259 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 381.

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

On the student-mix side, Hammond Elem School shows that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 12% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hammond Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.1%, the actual is 20.7%, a residual of +3.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Hammond Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: YCCS-Latino Youth Alternative HS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hammond Elem School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 15.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hammond Elem School has edged down 41%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 259 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 90% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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