Enrollment
394
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001135
Lavizzo Elementary School
138 W 109th St, Chicago, IL 60628 · (773) 535-5300 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
354 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 | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (39).
Student demographics
24%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
25.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.7pp since 2023
Math
6.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.5% | 6.3% |
| 2023-24 | 15.8% | 3.2% |
% 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
14.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Lavizzo Elementary School
Lavizzo Elementary School's state test result (14.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lavizzo Elementary School this school | 394 | 89.8% | 14.9% |
| Hughes L Elementary School Chicago | 431 | 87.0% | 13.0% |
| LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus Chicago | 390 | 88.2% | 30.6% |
| Carroll Elementary School Chicago | 411 | 86.1% | 27.6% |
| Harvard Elementary School Chicago | 335 | 93.4% | 16.9% |
| Legacy Elementary Charter School Chicago | 458 | 92.4% | 23.1% |
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 Lavizzo Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #1,757 of 1,925 | #661 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.3% | #2,006 of 2,077 ▼ 47 | #779 of 829 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #1,798 of 2,077 ▼ 77 | #691 of 829 ▼ 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 394 | #1,034 of 2,419 | #439 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,338 of 2,035 | #600 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.0% | #1,519 of 2,042 | #568 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.8% | #280 of 2,132 | #202 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.4% | #271 of 615 | #81 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
394
+24 (+6%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 950
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 | 394 | 27.5 | 14.3:1 | 90% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 334 | 24.8 | 13.5:1 | 98% (327) |
| 2022-23 | 342 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 96% (330) |
| 2020-21 | 370 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 14.3 | 24.9:1 | 98% (349) |
| 2015-16 | 409 | 19 | 21.5:1 | 96% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | 22 | 19.9:1 | 99% (435) |
| 2000-01 | 810 | 37 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 950 | 57 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lavizzo Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (357 to 394); teachers up 92% (14.3 to 27.5).
About Lavizzo Elementary School
Chicago, Illinois, is home to Lavizzo Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 394 students in pre-K through 8.
Lavizzo Elementary School is one of 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which enrolls 324,396 students in total.
About 86% of the student body at Lavizzo Elementary School is Black. Other students are 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 22% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 24% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 14.3 students per teacher and 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 90%. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 24 points.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 19.6% at Lavizzo Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 14.9%.
Among Cook County residents, the median household income is $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lavizzo Elementary School is one of 1,406 public schools in the county.
Brooks College Prep Academy High School is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lavizzo Elementary School. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Lavizzo Elementary School is 6th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 6% from 2020-21, when Lavizzo Elementary School had 370 students, to 2024-25, when it had 394.
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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
- Brooks College Prep Academy High School0.6 mi · 1,007
- Hughes L Elementary School0.6 mi · 431
- Dunne Technology Academy Elementary School0.7 mi · 206
- Fenger Academy High School0.7 mi · 312
- Haley Elementary Academy0.8 mi · 458
- Curtis Elementary School0.8 mi · 356
Frequently asked questions
About Lavizzo Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lavizzo Elementary School?
Lavizzo Elementary School enrolls approximately 394 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Lavizzo Elementary School serve?
Lavizzo Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does Lavizzo Elementary School have?
Lavizzo Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
How diverse is Lavizzo Elementary School?
Lavizzo Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 12% Hispanic, 86% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Lavizzo Elementary School?
Lavizzo Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
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