Enrollment
166
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000861
Holmes Elementary School
955 W Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60621 · (773) 535-9025 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL166 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
166 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 15 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 27 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 21 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 11 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 14 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 12 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 18 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 18 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 18 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 50% larger than its 8th grade class (18).
Student demographics
41%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Holmes Elementary School→Englewood STEM High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
13.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.8pp since 2023
Math
1.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 1 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.3% | 1.2% |
| 2023-24 | 6.5% | 0.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
8.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Holmes Elementary School
Holmes Elementary School's state test result (8.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holmes Elementary School this school | 166 | 100.0% | 8.8% |
| Langford A Elementary School Chicago | 181 | 95.6% | 16.1% |
| Kennedy Elementary School Chicago Heights | 193 | 97.4% | 36.8% |
| Sherman Elementary School Chicago | 225 | 97.8% | 15.4% |
| Nob Hill Elementary School Country Club Hills | 164 | 98.8% | 20.7% |
| Hughes C Elementary School Chicago | 169 | 90.5% | 16.8% |
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 Holmes Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.8% | #1,897 of 1,925 | #748 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 1.2% | #2,074 of 2,077 ▼ 3 | #826 of 829 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #2,030 of 2,077 ▼ 6 | #815 of 829 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 166 | #2,160 of 2,419 | #857 of 901 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #4 of 2,132 | #2 of 804 |
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
166
+28 (+20%) vs 2020
-80% since 1990-91, when it was 835
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 | 166 | 17.5 | 9.5:1 | 100% (166) |
| 2023-24 | 128 | 13.3 | 9.7:1 | 95% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 117 | 15.5 | 7.5:1 | 91% (107) |
| 2020-21 | 138 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 162 | 12.9 | 12.6:1 | 100% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 226 | 14 | 16.1:1 | 97% (220) |
| 2010-11 | 368 | 20 | 18.4:1 | 99% (364) |
| 2000-01 | 790 | 39 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 835 | 41 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Holmes Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (162 to 166); teachers up 36% (12.9 to 17.5).
About Holmes Elementary School
Among the schools in Chicago, Illinois, is Holmes Elementary School, a small elementary school. It has an enrollment of 166 students in pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 56% below average.
Holmes Elementary School falls under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which has 622 schools enrolling 324,396 students.
The largest group at Holmes Elementary School is Black students, at 72%. Other students are 27% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 22% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 41%.
The school lists 17.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.5:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. A total of 166 students, or 100%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
Holmes Elementary School is 5.0 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (8.8% versus 13.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Illinois.
In Cook County, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts is about 0.4 miles from Holmes Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Holmes Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Holmes Elementary School comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Holmes Elementary School inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 166, compared with 138 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to Holmes Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Other Holmes Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 11 states are named Holmes Elementary. Holmes Elementary School is the 16th largest of the 16.
- Holmes Elementary SchoolClarendon Hills, IL · 519 students
- Holmes Elementary SchoolHarvey, IL · 270 students
- Holmes Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 536 students
- Holmes ElementarySan Diego, CA · 495 students
- Holmes Elementary SchoolNew Britian, CT · 414 students
Nearby schools
- Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts0.4 mi · 272
- KIPP Chicago Chrtrs Bloom Campus0.4 mi · 921
- Sherman Elementary School0.5 mi · 225
- Libby Elementary School0.6 mi · 275
- Nicholson Tech Academy Elementary School0.6 mi · 487
- Langford A Elementary School0.7 mi · 181
Frequently asked questions
About Holmes Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Holmes Elementary School?
Holmes Elementary School enrolls approximately 166 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Holmes Elementary School serve?
Holmes Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Holmes Elementary School?
Approximately 9.5:1 students per teacher at Holmes Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Holmes Elementary School?
At Holmes Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 27% Hispanic, 72% Black.
Who oversees Holmes Elementary School?
Holmes Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.