Mays Elem Academy

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Mays Elem Academy is a tight-knit elementary campus, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It educates 277 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 381.

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

On the student-mix side, Mays Elem Academy lists that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest is composed of 8% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Mays Elem Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mays Elem Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.3%; actual is 9.9%, a gap of -22.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Mays Elem Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kershaw Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mays Elem Academy. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mays Elem Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 14.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mays Elem Academy's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 277). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 99% to 89% over that span.

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