Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School

Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School is a low-enrollment primary school in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school educates 222 students in grades 1 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School logs that the most-represented group is Asian (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Black, 13% White, 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 49.1%; this one delivers 93.9%, a residual of +44.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School is one campus in the mix.

Mount Greenwood Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 49.7%.

Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 242 students in 2018 compared to 222 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 24% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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