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Enrollment
844
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000926
Lloyd Elementary School
2103 N Lamon Ave, Chicago, IL 60639 · (773) 534-3070 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL844 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.6:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
774 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 | 132 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 135 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 124 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
7%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lloyd Elementary School→Foreman High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
30.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.7pp since 2023
Math
21.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +13.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.1% | 21.7% |
| 2023-24 | 13.4% | 8.2% |
% 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
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Lloyd Elementary School
Lloyd Elementary School's state test result (21.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lloyd Elementary School this school | 844 | 91.7% | 21.7% |
| Monarcas Academy Chicago | 797 | 91.5% | 40.3% |
| Peck Elementary School Chicago | 777 | 91.4% | 28.8% |
| Falconer Elementary School Chicago | 846 | 90.4% | 29.5% |
| Nightingale Elementary School Chicago | 917 | 90.6% | 24.1% |
| Sandoval Elementary School Chicago | 736 | 91.7% | 29.5% |
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 Lloyd Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #1,553 of 1,925 | #538 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #1,542 of 2,077 ▲ 169 | #507 of 829 ▲ 93 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #1,663 of 2,077 ▲ 155 | #604 of 829 ▲ 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 844 | #49 of 2,419 | #38 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #1,663 of 2,035 | #699 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.4% | #1,948 of 2,042 | #760 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.7% | #238 of 2,132 | #172 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.0% | #347 of 1,461 | #217 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
844
-53 (-6%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 659
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 | 844 | 54 | 15.6:1 | 92% (774) |
| 2023-24 | 822 | 57 | 14.4:1 | 93% (761) |
| 2022-23 | 826 | 53.5 | 15.4:1 | 92% (760) |
| 2020-21 | 897 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,096 | 56.6 | 19.4:1 | 95% (1,040) |
| 2015-16 | 1,219 | 64 | 19.1:1 | 96% (1,171) |
| 2010-11 | 1,277 | 61 | 20.9:1 | 99% (1,266) |
| 2000-01 | 1,149 | 58 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 659 | 33 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lloyd Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (1,096 to 844); teachers down 5% (56.6 to 54).
About Lloyd Elementary School
Lloyd Elementary School is a large elementary school located in Chicago, Illinois. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 844 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
District-wide, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
Hispanic students are 96% of those enrolled at Lloyd Elementary School. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Cook County's population at about 27%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 7, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.6 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is lower. Lloyd Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 92%. Across public schools in Cook County, the average is 66%.
Lloyd Elementary School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 30% of Illinois public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Lloyd Elementary School is +3.2 points: 21.7% actual, 18.6% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Cook County, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Lloyd Elementary School, Cook County has 1,406 public schools.
Northwest Middle School sits about 0.6 miles from Lloyd Elementary School. Lloyd Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 21.7% average proficiency ranks 5th among 9 nearby schools.
Lloyd Elementary School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
The school shrank from 897 students in 2020-21 to 844 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Lloyd Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- Northwest Middle School0.6 mi · 532
- Christopher House Chrt Elementary School0.6 mi · 502
- Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Academy0.6 mi · 1,135
- Prosser Career Academy High School0.7 mi · 1,185
- North-Grand High School0.8 mi · 1,061
- Hanson Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 1,125
Frequently asked questions
About Lloyd Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lloyd Elementary School?
Lloyd Elementary School enrolls approximately 844 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lloyd Elementary School serve?
Lloyd Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Lloyd Elementary School?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at Lloyd Elementary School.
How diverse is Lloyd Elementary School?
Lloyd Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is Lloyd Elementary School public or private?
Lloyd Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.