Enrollment
360
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000869
Jahn Elementary School
3149 N Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60657 · (773) 534-5500 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL360 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.1:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
174 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 | 106 | 29% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 29 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 6% |
| Grade 8 | 16 | 4% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 188% larger than its 8th grade class (16).
Student demographics
69%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
Jahn Elementary School→Lake View 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
40.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +4.2pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.7% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.5% | 14.0% |
% 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
30.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Jahn Elementary School
Jahn Elementary School's state test result (30.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jahn Elementary School this school | 360 | 48.3% | 30.5% |
| Crystal Lawns Elementary School Joliet | 328 | 47.6% | 46.5% |
| Vick Early Childhood & Family Center Chicago | 417 | 44.6% | N/A |
| Troy Heritage Trail School Joliet | 480 | 49.6% | 43.5% |
| Troy Cronin Elementary School Shorewood | 466 | 45.5% | 50.0% |
| Lee R Foster Elementary School Oak Forest | 397 | 48.6% | 55.3% |
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 Jahn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #1,258 of 1,925 | #390 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #1,601 of 2,077 ▼ 163 | #534 of 829 ▼ 70 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #1,320 of 2,077 ▼ 409 | #450 of 829 ▼ 151 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 360 | #1,206 of 2,419 | #497 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #132 of 2,035 | #78 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #197 of 2,042 | #85 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.3% | #1,347 of 2,132 | #619 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.5% | #157 of 615 | #42 of 186 |
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
360
+58 (+19%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 625
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 | 360 | 35.8 | 10.1:1 | 48% (174) |
| 2023-24 | 314 | 32.5 | 9.7:1 | 51% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 291 | 30 | 9.7:1 | 51% (147) |
| 2020-21 | 302 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 309 | 22.7 | 13.6:1 | 63% (195) |
| 2015-16 | 323 | 21 | 15.4:1 | 72% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 409 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 85% (348) |
| 2000-01 | 515 | 32 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 625 | 31 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jahn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (309 to 360); teachers up 58% (22.7 to 35.8).
About Jahn Elementary School
Jahn Elementary School serves students in Chicago, Illinois, as a mid-sized elementary school. It teaches 360 students in pre-K through 8.
Jahn Elementary School is run by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, whose 622 schools enroll 324,396 students.
The largest group at Jahn Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 42%. Other students are 32% White, 16% Black, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is higher than the 27% Hispanic share among all Cook County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 69%.
Jahn Elementary School has 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 48% at Jahn Elementary School. That rate is below the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
Jahn Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 16% of Illinois public elementary schools.
In Illinois, Jahn Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 30.5% actual against a predicted 43.6%.
For Cook County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Jahn Elementary School, Cook County has 1,406 public schools.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, Burley Elementary School, is the closest to Jahn Elementary School. Jahn Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 73.0% proficiency; Jahn Elementary School posts 30.5%.
Jahn Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Enrollment increased 19% over 4 years, reaching 360 in 2024-25.
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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
- Burley Elementary School0.3 mi · 494
- Alcott College Prep0.4 mi · 373
- Hamilton Elementary School0.5 mi · 486
- Audubon Elementary School0.5 mi · 606
- Prescott Elementary School0.8 mi · 463
- Lane Technical High School0.9 mi · 4,604
Frequently asked questions
About Jahn Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jahn Elementary School?
Jahn Elementary School enrolls approximately 360 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Jahn Elementary School serve?
Jahn Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jahn Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jahn Elementary School is approximately 10.1:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Jahn Elementary School?
Jahn Elementary School reports a student body of 32% White, 42% Hispanic, 16% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Jahn Elementary School in?
Jahn Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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