Kellman Corporate Community Elem

Kellman Corporate Community Elem operates as an intimate elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 209 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 45% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Kellman Corporate Community Elem is among them.

Demographically, Kellman Corporate Community Elem reports that nearly all students (93%) are Black; the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Kellman Corporate Community Elem has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Kellman Corporate Community Elem tighter than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kellman Corporate Community Elem tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Kellman Corporate Community Elem is one.

Manley Career Academy High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kellman Corporate Community Elem ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 16.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 38%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 209 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 0% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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