Langford A Elem School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Langford An Elem School is a modestly sized elementary-level community, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It caters to 181 students across grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 52% below typical.

Langford An Elem School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that works with 324,396 students overall.

On demographics, Langford An Elem School logs that Black students make up the majority at 73%; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic, 2% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Langford An Elem School shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 96% 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, Langford An Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Langford An Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Langford An Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Langford An Elem School's enrollment has contracted 33% since 2018, when it stood at 270 (now 181). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 96% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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