Harvard Elem School

Harvard Elem School operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 335 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Harvard Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%); the rest breaks down as 13% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Harvard Elem School shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Harvard Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.6%, the actual is 16.9%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Harvard Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Deneen Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harvard Elem School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 22.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Harvard Elem School's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 335). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 1% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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