Locke J Elem School

Locke J Elem School is one of the expansive elementary schools in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 1,089 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 186% above the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Locke J Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Locke J Elem School records that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 14% White, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, Locke J Elem School reports 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Locke J Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.7%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cook County shows 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%. Locke J Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Steinmetz College Prep HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Locke J Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Locke J Elem School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.5%.

Locke J Elem School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Locke J Elem School's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,337 (now 1,089). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 85% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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