Herzl Elem School

Herzl Elem School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 429 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, Herzl Elem School reports that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Herzl Elem School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Herzl Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Herzl Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.4%, the actual is 4.0%, a residual of -11.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Herzl Elem School is one.

Dvorak Technology Acad Elem Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Herzl Elem School. On composite proficiency, Herzl Elem School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 13.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 591 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 88% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Herzl Elem School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.