Irving Elem School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Irving Elem School is a small K-5 school, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It works with 310 students across grades pre-K through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, Irving Elem School reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 20% Hispanic, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 80% of students at Irving Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Irving Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.2%.

Around the school, Cook County reports that 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%. Irving Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Crane Medical Prep HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Irving Elem School. On composite proficiency, Irving Elem School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 16.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Irving Elem School has shrank 30%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 79% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.