Mayer Elem School

Located at 2250 N Clifton Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Mayer Elem School is a large primary school that caters to 707 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Mayer Elem School sits 86% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Mayer Elem School reports that White students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school lists 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mayer Elem School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mayer Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.5%; this one delivers 74.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Mayer Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mayer Elem School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mayer Elem School has declined 8%, going from 766 students in 2018 to 707 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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