Enrollment
213
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000856
King Academy of Social Justice
644 W 71st St, Chicago, IL 60621 · (773) 535-3875 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL213 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Illinois public elementary schools
- FTest 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
9.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
187 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 | 11 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 20 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 17 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 25 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 20 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 25 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 22 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 24 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 3 | 1% |
| Grade 10 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 8% smaller than its 8th grade class (24).
Student demographics
27%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
King Academy of Social Justice→Englewood STEM High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
15.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.4pp since 2023
Math
5.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.8% | 5.3% |
| 2023-24 | 8.4% | 3.1% |
% 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
9.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 King Academy of Social Justice
King Academy of Social Justice's state test result (9.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Academy of Social Justice this school | 213 | 87.8% | 9.7% |
| Sherwood Elementary School Chicago | 204 | 89.7% | 16.5% |
| Penn Elementary School Chicago | 218 | 85.3% | 9.3% |
| Hefferan Elementary School Chicago | 214 | 89.3% | 9.2% |
| Beidler Elementary School Chicago | 232 | 84.1% | 14.7% |
| Avalon Park Elementary School Chicago | 225 | 85.8% | 18.8% |
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 King Academy of Social Justice ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.7% | #1,885 of 1,925 | #737 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.3% | #2,022 of 2,077 ▼ 60 | #790 of 829 ▼ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.8% | #1,999 of 2,077 ▼ 21 | #796 of 829 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 213 | #2,002 of 2,419 | #807 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #76 of 2,035 | #48 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.7% | #1,466 of 2,042 | #543 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.8% | #337 of 2,132 | #243 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.0% | #811 of 1,461 | #421 of 661 |
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
213
-41 (-16%) vs 2020
-68% since 1990-91, when it was 662
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 | 213 | 22.5 | 9.5:1 | 88% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 253 | 20 | 12.7:1 | 97% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 241 | 18 | 13.4:1 | 98% (235) |
| 2020-21 | 254 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 242 | 11.6 | 20.9:1 | 100% (242) |
| 2015-16 | 234 | 15 | 15.6:1 | 100% (234) |
| 2010-11 | 377 | 18 | 20.9:1 | 99% (374) |
| 2000-01 | 692 | 31 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 662 | 33 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for King Academy of Social Justice.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (242 to 213); teachers up 95% (11.6 to 22.5).
About King Academy of Social Justice
King Academy of Social Justice is a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. A federal count lists 213 students at the school, in pre-K through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381, so this school runs 44% smaller than that.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 is made up of 622 schools with 324,396 students in all.
The large majority of students at King Academy of Social Justice, 85%, are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Hispanic. Among people living in Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. The chance that two students picked at random at King Academy of Social Justice belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 27%.
Dividing enrollment by its 22.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 9.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, higher than at this school. King Academy of Social Justice reports 88% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Cook County, the average is 66%.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, King Academy of Social Justice receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Illinois, King Academy of Social Justice is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 9.7% actual against a predicted 20.8%.
Federal survey data for Cook County show that median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. King Academy of Social Justice is among the 1,406 public schools in Cook County.
The next-closest public school is Englewood STEM High School, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. King Academy of Social Justice ranks 8th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 9.7% against a local average of 13.6%.
King Academy of Social Justice is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 16%, from 254 to 213.
Discussions about King Academy of Social Justice may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Englewood STEM High School0.5 mi · 778
- Mays Elementary Academy0.6 mi · 277
- Parker Elementary Community Academy0.6 mi · 367
- Stagg Elementary School0.6 mi · 377
- Bond Elementary School0.6 mi · 233
- Harvard Elementary School0.7 mi · 335
Frequently asked questions
About King Academy of Social JusticeHow large is King Academy of Social Justice?
King Academy of Social Justice enrolls approximately 213 students in grades PK-08.
Is King Academy of Social Justice an elementary, middle, or high school?
King Academy of Social Justice is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does King Academy of Social Justice have?
King Academy of Social Justice employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.5:1.
What is the student diversity at King Academy of Social Justice?
Student demographics at King Academy of Social Justice are roughly 1% White, 14% Hispanic, 85% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is King Academy of Social Justice public or private?
King Academy of Social Justice is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.