Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School

Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School, a low-enrollment elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, enrolls 301 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 21% leaner 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. Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School records that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 22% Black, 8% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.5%, the actual is 34.2%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Perez Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School. On composite proficiency, Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 18.6%.

Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Joseph Jungman Magnet Elem School has ticked up 7%, going from 282 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 83% to 63%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.