Manierre Elem School

Manierre Elem School, a low-enrollment elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, hosts 269 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Manierre Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Manierre Elem School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Manierre Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Manierre Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.9%, the actual is 7.3%, a residual of -8.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Manierre Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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), Manierre Elem School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Manierre Elem School has contracted 22%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 98% to 93% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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