LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch

As a sprawling elementary-level community in Chicago, Illinois, LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch enrolls 589 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch sits 55% bigger than that benchmark.

LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that works with 324,396 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch records that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 29% White, 19% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 64.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pritzker Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 24.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch has held roughly steady, going from 590 students in 2018 to 589 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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