Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000867
Irving Elementary School
749 S Oakley Blvd, Chicago, IL 60612 · (773) 534-7295 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
249 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 | 43 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 27 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 35 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 18% smaller than its 8th grade class (34).
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
Irving Elementary School→Manley Career Academy 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
24.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
4.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 4 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 4.2% |
| 2023-24 | 21.1% | 3.8% |
% 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
14.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Irving Elementary School
Irving Elementary School's state test result (14.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irving Elementary School this school | 310 | 80.3% | 14.2% |
| Howe Elementary School Chicago | 341 | 82.7% | 12.1% |
| Ashburn Community Elementary School Chicago | 324 | 76.5% | 25.7% |
| Lovett Elementary School Chicago | 342 | 83.3% | 32.7% |
| Mohawk Primary Center Park Forest | 283 | 84.5% | 32.5% |
| Kozminski Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 275 | 79.3% | 23.1% |
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 Irving Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.2% | #1,775 of 1,925 | #673 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 4.2% | #2,046 of 2,077 ▼ 120 | #807 of 829 ▼ 74 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #1,839 of 2,077 ▼ 307 | #714 of 829 ▼ 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,486 of 2,419 | #617 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #905 of 2,035 | #421 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.7% | #1,135 of 2,042 | #425 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.3% | #497 of 2,132 | #342 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.5% | #188 of 1,461 | #118 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
310
+12 (+4%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 479
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 | 310 | 23.8 | 13.1:1 | 80% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 22.3 | 12.2:1 | 86% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 289 | 22.5 | 12.8:1 | 87% (252) |
| 2020-21 | 298 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 440 | 22.6 | 19.5:1 | 90% (397) |
| 2015-16 | 515 | 30 | 17.2:1 | 89% (456) |
| 2010-11 | 491 | 25 | 19.6:1 | 91% (449) |
| 2000-01 | 533 | 33 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 479 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Irving Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (440 to 310); teachers up 5% (22.6 to 23.8).
About Irving Elementary School
Irving Elementary School is a small elementary school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, located in Chicago, Illinois. Federal data show 310 students enrolled in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25.
Across its 622 schools, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students. Irving Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Irving Elementary School are Black (74%). The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic and 4% White. Census estimates put the Black share of Cook County's population at about 22%. The diversity index for Irving Elementary School is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 23.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, Irving Elementary School has a ratio of 13.1:1. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 0.9 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 80%. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 14 points lower.
In Illinois, Irving Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 14.2% actual against a predicted 25.1%.
For the population of Cook County, median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Cook County, 1,406 public schools serve about 697,934 students.
Irving Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Crane Medical Prep High School, about 0.4 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Irving Elementary School. Its average proficiency rate of 14.2% is below the 16.5% average for nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Irving Elementary School is City: Large.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 298 (2020-21) to 310 (2024-25).
On allk12, people connected to Irving Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Irving Elementary schools
18 other US public schools in 11 states are named Irving Elementary. Irving Elementary School is the 14th largest of the 19.
- Irving Elementary SchoolOak Park, IL · 509 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolBerwyn, IL · 415 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolBloomington, IL · 303 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolKewanee, IL · 242 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolSioux City, IA · 605 students
Nearby schools
- Crane Medical Prep High School0.4 mi · 295
- Dett Elementary School0.6 mi · 326
- Noble St Chtr-Chicago Bulls Prep0.6 mi · 1,060
- Phoenix Military Academy High School0.6 mi · 372
- Noble St Chtr-UIC College Prep0.6 mi · 957
- Chalmers STEAM Elementary0.7 mi · 205
Frequently asked questions
About Irving Elementary SchoolHow large is Irving Elementary School?
Irving Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Irving Elementary School serve?
Irving Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Irving Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Irving Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Irving Elementary School?
At Irving Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 20% Hispanic, 74% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Irving Elementary School public or private?
Irving 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.