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Enrollment
637
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000890
Kinzie Elementary School
5625 S Mobile Ave, Chicago, IL 60638 · (773) 535-2425 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL637 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
392 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 32 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 77 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 74 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 32% smaller than its 8th grade class (74).
Student demographics
35%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
Kinzie Elementary School→Kennedy High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
71.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
41.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.9% | 41.5% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 33.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
55.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Kinzie Elementary School
Kinzie Elementary School's state test result (55.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinzie Elementary School this school | 637 | 61.5% | 55.6% |
| Crosby Elementary School Harvard | 655 | 64.3% | 10.6% |
| Chicago Academy Elementary School Chicago | 548 | 63.1% | 41.0% |
| Roy Elementary School Northlake | 545 | 59.4% | 35.1% |
| Greenman Elementary School Aurora | 528 | 59.7% | 26.3% |
| Nicholas A Hermes Elementary School Aurora | 607 | 63.4% | 15.5% |
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 Kinzie Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #434 of 1,925 | #127 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #922 of 2,077 ▼ 241 | #273 of 829 ▼ 64 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #301 of 2,077 ▼ 170 | #113 of 829 ▼ 58 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 637 | #205 of 2,419 | #123 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #727 of 2,035 | #346 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.4% | #1,269 of 2,042 | #467 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #956 of 2,132 | #523 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.3% | #1,062 of 1,461 | #516 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
637
-8 (-1%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 406
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 | 637 | 51 | 12.5:1 | 62% (392) |
| 2023-24 | 676 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 72% (486) |
| 2022-23 | 669 | 51 | 13.1:1 | 58% (391) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 687 | 36.9 | 18.6:1 | 66% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 666 | 40 | 16.6:1 | 68% (452) |
| 2010-11 | 722 | 45 | 16.0:1 | 64% (465) |
| 2000-01 | 643 | 55 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 406 | 44 | 9.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kinzie Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (687 to 637); teachers up 38% (36.9 to 51).
About Kinzie Elementary School
Kinzie Elementary School, located in Chicago, Illinois, is a large elementary school. It offers pre-K through 8 and has 637 students enrolled. That is 67% above the average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
The 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enroll 324,396 students altogether, Kinzie Elementary School among them.
More than half of enrollment at Kinzie Elementary School is Hispanic: 79%. The remaining shares are 16% White and 5% Black. Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 35%.
Kinzie Elementary School has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 1.4 students per teacher. At Kinzie Elementary School, 62% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Kinzie Elementary School beats its 36.0% prediction with 55.6%, a top-10% result in Illinois.
Cook County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Cook County's 1,406 public schools enroll about 697,934 students and include Kinzie Elementary School.
The closest school to Kinzie Elementary School is Kennedy High School, located about 0.1 miles away. Kinzie Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Kinzie Elementary School's average proficiency of 55.6% compares with 35.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Kinzie Elementary School enrolled 645; in 2024-25, 637.
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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
- Kennedy High School0.1 mi · 1,647
- Hale Elementary School0.6 mi · 791
- Byrne Elementary School0.7 mi · 619
- Blair Early Childhood Center1.0 mi · 164
- Twain Elementary School1.2 mi · 850
- Charles J Sahs Elementary School1.4 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About Kinzie Elementary SchoolHow large is Kinzie Elementary School?
Kinzie Elementary School enrolls approximately 637 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Kinzie Elementary School serve?
Kinzie Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Kinzie Elementary School have?
Kinzie Elementary School employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Kinzie Elementary School?
Student demographics at Kinzie Elementary School are roughly 16% White, 79% Hispanic, 5% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Kinzie Elementary School in?
Kinzie Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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