Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr

Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr is one of the small elementary-level communitys in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 256 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that enrolls 324,396 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school records 21% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.5%; actual is 9.5%, a gap of -23.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Rowe Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lozano Elem Bilingual & Intl Ctr has increased 26%, going from 203 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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