Kozminski Elem Community Academy

Kozminski Elem Community Academy operates as a close-knit primary school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 275 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Kozminski Elem Community Academy sits 28% below that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kozminski Elem Community Academy records that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Kozminski Elem Community Academy reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kozminski Elem Community Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.1%.

In the area at large, Cook County reports that 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 Kozminski Elem Community Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Reavis Elem Math & Sci Spec Schl, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kozminski Elem Community Academy comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 250 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 95% to 72% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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