Little Village Elem School

Little Village Elem School is one of the high-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 575 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Little Village Elem School sits 51% above that benchmark.

Little Village Elem School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that hosts 324,396 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Little Village Elem School logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Little Village Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Little Village Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.8%; this one delivers 21.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Little Village Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Ortiz De Dominguez Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Little Village Elem School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Little Village Elem School's enrollment has ticked down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 787 (now 575). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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