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Enrollment
589
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993005979
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School
1148 N Honore St, Chicago, IL 60622 · (773) 534-0490 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL589 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
14.4:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
196 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 | 88 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 52 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 15% larger than its 8th grade class (52).
Student demographics
71%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
67.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
61.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +12.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.5% | 61.3% |
| 2023-24 | 62.5% | 49.1% |
% 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
64.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School's state test result (64.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School this school | 589 | 33.3% | 64.4% |
| Charles Reed Elementary School Plainfield | 641 | 36.7% | 38.0% |
| Ridge Elementary School Plainfield | 481 | 38.9% | 43.9% |
| Fox Meadow Elementary School South Elgin | 577 | 37.1% | 46.4% |
| Fearn Elementary School North Aurora | 492 | 32.1% | 44.2% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Joliet | 646 | 38.1% | 41.5% |
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 LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #218 of 1,925 | #77 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #379 of 2,077 ▼ 56 | #129 of 829 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #419 of 2,077 ▼ 206 | #151 of 829 ▼ 65 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 589 | #290 of 2,419 | #164 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #1,349 of 2,035 | #604 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.1% | #113 of 2,042 | #51 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.3% | #1,718 of 2,132 | #698 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.2% | #1,458 of 1,461 | #660 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
589
+42 (+8%) vs 2020
+24% since 2010-11, when it was 476
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 | 589 | 41 | 14.4:1 | 33% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 582 | 40.8 | 14.3:1 | 36% (212) |
| 2022-23 | 576 | 37.5 | 15.4:1 | 33% (191) |
| 2020-21 | 547 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 590 | 36.8 | 16.0:1 | 38% (226) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 36 | 16.3:1 | 43% (251) |
| 2010-11 | 476 | 28 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (590 to 589); teachers up 11% (36.8 to 41).
About LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Chicago, Illinois. The school teaches pre-K through 8 and enrolls 589 students. That puts enrollment 55% above the 381-student average for elementary schools in Illinois.
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School is part of a district of 622 schools: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 324,396 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School is Hispanic, with 40% of students. The next largest groups are 29% White, 19% Black, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 13 points above the 27% share among Cook County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
With 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.4:1. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is close to this figure. Roughly 33% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School outscored 87%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (64.4%) and its predicted rate (52.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
In Cook County, median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Pritzker Elementary School is the nearest public school to LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 8%, from 547 to 589.
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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
- Pritzker Elementary School0.3 mi · 674
- Wells Community Academy High School0.4 mi · 398
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Elementary0.4 mi · 260
- Sabin Elementary Magnet School0.6 mi · 354
- Rowe Elementary0.6 mi · 617
- Noble St Chtr-Noble Campus0.6 mi · 696
Frequently asked questions
About LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School?
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School enrolls approximately 589 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School serve?
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School is approximately 14.4:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School?
Student demographics at LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School are roughly 29% White, 40% Hispanic, 19% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School public or private?
LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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