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If you had an hour of school board time for Hawthorne Elem Scholastic Academy, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
642
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000832
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy
3319 N Clifton Ave, Chicago, IL 60657 · (773) 534-5550 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL642 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
77 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 69 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (64).
Student demographics
65%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
96.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +4.3pp since 2023
Math
95.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 96 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 96.0% | 95.3% |
| 2023-24 | 91.7% | 86.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
93.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy's state test result (93.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy this school | 642 | 12.0% | 93.6% |
| Alcott Elementary School Chicago | 567 | 12.9% | 75.7% |
| Edgebrook Elementary School Chicago | 554 | 15.2% | 68.7% |
| River Woods Elementary School Naperville | 481 | 8.7% | 78.1% |
| Nettelhorst Elementary School Chicago | 653 | 19.3% | 65.9% |
| Bell Elementary School Chicago | 902 | 10.1% | 78.6% |
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 Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 93.6% | #6 of 1,925 | #5 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.3% | #4 of 2,077 ▲ 3 | #3 of 829 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #7 of 2,077 ▼ 2 | #4 of 829 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 642 | #192 of 2,419 | #116 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #1,555 of 2,035 | #669 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.3% | #343 of 2,042 | #142 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.0% | #2,072 of 2,132 | #784 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.2% | #207 of 615 | #56 of 186 |
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
642
+76 (+13%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 555
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 | 642 | 42.5 | 15.1:1 | 12% (77) |
| 2023-24 | 616 | 41.5 | 14.8:1 | 14% (89) |
| 2022-23 | 604 | 41.5 | 14.6:1 | 16% (97) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 36.2 | 15.7:1 | 21% (118) |
| 2015-16 | 571 | 35 | 16.3:1 | 22% (123) |
| 2010-11 | 565 | 27 | 20.9:1 | 16% (89) |
| 2000-01 | 557 | 30 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 555 | 28 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (567 to 642); teachers up 17% (36.2 to 42.5).
About Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy runs as a high-enrollment elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. Classes run from kindergarten through 8, and the school has 642 students. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students, so this school is 69% bigger than average.
Across its 622 schools, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students. Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy is one of those schools.
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy's enrollment is 53% White. The next largest groups are 20% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 10% multiracial, and 4% Black. In Cook County overall, about 44% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.
The school reports 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.1 students per teacher. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 12%. Among public schools in Cook County, the average eligibility rate is 66%.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy is among the top 10% of schools in Illinois. Predicted: 64.6%. Actual: 93.6%.
County data help place the school in context: in Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The public schools of Cook County number 1,406 and enroll about 697,934.
Nearest public school: Inter-American Elementary Magnet School, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy is 1st of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy went from 566 students to 642.
The Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
Nearby schools
- Inter-American Elementary Magnet School0.5 mi · 616
- Harriet Tubman Elementary School0.6 mi · 308
- Nettelhorst Elementary School0.7 mi · 653
- Blaine Elementary School0.7 mi · 639
- Burley Elementary School0.7 mi · 494
- Hamilton Elementary School0.7 mi · 486
Frequently asked questions
About Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic AcademyHow many students attend Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy?
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy enrolls approximately 642 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy serve?
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy.
How diverse is Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy?
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy reports a student body of 53% White, 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, 13% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy in?
Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.