Hearst Elem School

Hearst Elem School is one of the cozy elementary campuss in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 285 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 25% below typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Hearst Elem School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Hearst Elem School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest consists of 32% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Hearst Elem School shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Hearst Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 85% 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.

With demographic context factored in, Hearst Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.7%, the actual is 15.2%, a residual of -7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Hearst Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Academy for Global Citizenship, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hearst Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 58% to 65%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.