Howe Elem School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Howe Elem School is a mid-sized elementary-level community, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It enrolls 341 students across grades pre-K through 8.

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

On demographics, Howe Elem School records that 78% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 19% Hispanic, 2% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Howe Elem School qualify 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 somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Howe Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.8%, the actual is 12.1%, a residual of -11.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Howe Elem School is one.

Moving Everest Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Howe Elem School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 13.5%.

Howe Elem School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Howe Elem School has ticked down 29%, going from 480 students in 2018 to 341 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 96% to 78%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.