Jamieson Elem School

Jamieson Elem School is an elementary campus of expansive scale in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, serveing 825 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 117% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Jamieson Elem School records that the most-represented group is Asian (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 32% Hispanic, 23% White, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Jamieson Elem School logs 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jamieson Elem School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.5%; Jamieson Elem School posts 47.0%, +14.5 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Jamieson Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Mather High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jamieson Elem School. On composite proficiency, Jamieson Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 919 students in 2018 compared to 825 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 28% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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