Enrollment
169
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000865
Hughes C Elementary School
4247 W 15th St, Chicago, IL 60623 · (773) 534-1762 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL169 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
153 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 | 20 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 15 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 20 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 10 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 15 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 22 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 22 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 14 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 15 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 16 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (15) is 6% smaller than its 8th grade class (16).
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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
21.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.3pp since 2023
Math
16.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.3% | 16.5% |
| 2023-24 | 14.0% | 9.2% |
% 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
16.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Hughes C Elementary School
Hughes C Elementary School's state test result (16.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hughes C Elementary School this school | 169 | 90.5% | 16.8% |
| Langford A Elementary School Chicago | 181 | 95.6% | 16.1% |
| Hefferan Elementary School Chicago | 214 | 89.3% | 9.2% |
| Kennedy Elementary School Chicago Heights | 193 | 97.4% | 36.8% |
| Holmes Elementary School Chicago | 166 | 100.0% | 8.8% |
| Sherman Elementary School Chicago | 225 | 97.8% | 15.4% |
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 Hughes C Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,711 of 1,925 | #633 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #1,693 of 2,077 ▼ 35 | #582 of 829 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #1,896 of 2,077 ▼ 101 | #746 of 829 ▼ 47 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 169 | #2,151 of 2,419 | #854 of 901 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #265 of 2,132 | #193 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.1% | #140 of 1,461 | #91 of 661 |
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
169
-58 (-26%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 432
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 | 169 | 18.5 | 9.1:1 | 91% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 154 | 17 | 9.1:1 | 93% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 190 | 17.5 | 10.9:1 | 91% (173) |
| 2020-21 | 227 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 249 | 15.2 | 16.4:1 | 98% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 314 | 15 | 20.9:1 | 98% (307) |
| 2010-11 | 309 | 16 | 19.3:1 | 94% (290) |
| 2000-01 | 542 | 24 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 27 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hughes C Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (249 to 169); teachers up 22% (15.2 to 18.5).
About Hughes C Elementary School
Hughes C Elementary School is a small elementary school with an address in Chicago, Illinois. It teaches 169 students in pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 56% lower.
Hughes C Elementary School is a school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The district has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
More than half of enrollment at Hughes C Elementary School is Black: 72%. The next largest groups are 27% Hispanic. The school's Black share is 50 points above the 22% share among Cook County residents. The diversity index for Hughes C Elementary School is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Hughes C Elementary School comes to 18.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. Hughes C Elementary School counts 91% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 25 points.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Hughes C Elementary School outscored 15%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, Hughes C Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 16.8%; the prediction is 19.2%.
In Cook County, home to about 5,182,090 people, median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Cook County's 1,406 public schools enroll about 697,934 students and include Hughes C Elementary School.
Hughes C Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Mason Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Hughes C Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Hughes C Elementary School at 5th of 9.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 169 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 227.
On allk12, people connected to Hughes C Elementary School can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. 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
Nearby schools
- Mason Elementary School0.3 mi · 241
- YCCS-CCA Academy High School0.5 mi · 124
- Frazier Perspectives Magnet Elementary School0.5 mi · 129
- Penn Elementary School0.5 mi · 218
- KIPP Chicago Chrtrs - Ascend Academy0.5 mi · 897
- Webster Elementary School0.7 mi · 183
Frequently asked questions
About Hughes C Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hughes C Elementary School?
Hughes C Elementary School enrolls approximately 169 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Hughes C Elementary School serve?
Hughes C Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does Hughes C Elementary School have?
Hughes C Elementary School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Hughes C Elementary School?
Student demographics at Hughes C Elementary School are roughly 27% Hispanic, 72% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Hughes C Elementary School public or private?
Hughes C Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.