Mann Elem School

Mann Elem School is one of the small K-5 schools in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 283 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

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

In terms of who attends, Mann Elem School reports that nearly all students (88%) are Black. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Mann Elem School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Mann Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at Mann Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mann Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.7%; this one delivers 25.1%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cook County put 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. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Mann Elem School is one campus in the mix.

YCCS-Sullivan House Alt HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mann Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mann Elem School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 19.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mann Elem School has contracted 19%, going from 348 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 98% to 88%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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