Lyon Elem School

Lyon Elem School is one of the sizable elementary campuss in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 988 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Lyon Elem School sits 159% larger than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Lyon Elem School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lyon Elem School shows that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lyon Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.0%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows 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%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Lyon Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Camras Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lyon Elem School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.9%.

Lyon Elem School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lyon Elem School has edged down 30%, going from 1,411 students in 2018 to 988 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Lyon Elem School typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.