McAuliffe Elem School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, McAuliffe Elem School is a mid-tier K-5 school, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It caters to 523 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

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

On demographics, McAuliffe Elem School reports that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% Black, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

In terms of school funding signals, McAuliffe Elem School logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, McAuliffe Elem School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.2%; this one comes in at 18.2%, -15.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), McAuliffe Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Marine Leadership Academy - Ames, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, McAuliffe Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.9%.

McAuliffe Elem School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. McAuliffe Elem School's enrollment has edged down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 729 (now 523). Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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