Enrollment
275
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000903
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy
936 E 54th St, Chicago, IL 60615 · (773) 535-0980 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL275 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
218 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 | 35 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 27 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 27 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 24 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 17% larger than its 8th grade class (24).
Student demographics
44%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
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy→Kenwood Academy 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
37.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +17.4pp since 2023
Math
14.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 14.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.4% | 6.6% |
% 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
23.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Kozminski Elementary Community Academy
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy's state test result (23.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kozminski Elementary Community Academy this school | 275 | 79.3% | 23.1% |
| Irving Elementary School Chicago | 310 | 80.3% | 14.2% |
| Mohawk Primary Center Park Forest | 283 | 84.5% | 32.5% |
| Washington Elementary School Champaign | 265 | 75.8% | 13.9% |
| Ashburn Community Elementary School Chicago | 324 | 76.5% | 25.7% |
| Bret Harte Elementary School Chicago | 339 | 75.2% | 23.4% |
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 Kozminski Elementary Community Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #1,503 of 1,925 | #505 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #1,769 of 2,077 ▲ 9 | #627 of 829 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #1,420 of 2,077 ▲ 130 | #500 of 829 ▲ 69 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 275 | #1,681 of 2,419 | #692 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #224 of 2,035 | #135 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.3% | #1,052 of 2,042 | #390 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.3% | #525 of 2,132 | #360 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.0% | #281 of 615 | #82 of 186 |
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
275
+33 (+14%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 532
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 | 275 | 25.8 | 10.7:1 | 79% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 257 | 23.3 | 11.1:1 | 78% (200) |
| 2022-23 | 249 | 17.5 | 14.2:1 | 79% (196) |
| 2020-21 | 242 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 250 | 13.8 | 18.2:1 | 92% (229) |
| 2015-16 | 327 | 15 | 21.8:1 | 95% (311) |
| 2010-11 | 455 | 23 | 19.8:1 | 89% (405) |
| 2000-01 | 484 | 29 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 30 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kozminski Elementary Community Academy.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (250 to 275); teachers up 87% (13.8 to 25.8).
About Kozminski Elementary Community Academy
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy serves students in Chicago, Illinois, as a small elementary school. The latest federal count shows 275 students in pre-K through 8. Against the 381-student average for elementary schools in Illinois, enrollment here is 28% lower.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 324,396 students in 622 schools, and Kozminski Elementary Community Academy is one of those schools.
At 72%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Kozminski Elementary Community Academy combined. After that, the student body is 17% Hispanic, 5% White, and 4% Asian. Among all residents of Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. Kozminski Elementary Community Academy has a diversity index of 44%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Kozminski Elementary Community Academy in 2024-25, for a ratio of 10.7:1. Among elementary schools in Illinois, the typical ratio is 13.9:1. The lunch program counts 79% of students at Kozminski Elementary Community Academy as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Cook County averages 66%, lower than here.
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 21% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 25.7% for a school in Illinois with Kozminski Elementary Community Academy's free or reduced-price lunch share. Kozminski Elementary Community Academy posts 23.1%.
Census estimates describe Cook County this way: median household income is about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Federal data list 1,406 public schools in Cook County, with a combined enrollment of about 697,934.
The nearest other public school, Reavis Elementary Math & Sci Spec Schl, is about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Kozminski Elementary Community Academy is 5th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale data from NCES put Kozminski Elementary Community Academy inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
The 2024-25 enrollment of 275 was 14% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 242.
Discussions about Kozminski Elementary Community Academy 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
- Reavis Elementary Math & Sci Spec Schl0.4 mi · 356
- Murray Elementary Language Academy0.5 mi · 477
- Bronzeville Academy Charter School0.5 mi · 332
- Walter Henri Dyett HS for Arts0.5 mi · 538
- Ray Elementary School0.6 mi · 613
- Shoesmith Elementary School0.6 mi · 294
Frequently asked questions
About Kozminski Elementary Community AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Kozminski Elementary Community Academy?
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy enrolls approximately 275 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Kozminski Elementary Community Academy serve?
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Kozminski Elementary Community Academy?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at Kozminski Elementary Community Academy.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Kozminski Elementary Community Academy?
At Kozminski Elementary Community Academy, the student body is approximately 5% White, 17% Hispanic, 72% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Kozminski Elementary Community Academy?
Kozminski Elementary Community Academy is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.