Mireles Elem Academy

Mireles Elem Academy is a mid-sized K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school educates 546 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 43% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Mireles Elem Academy is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that caters to 324,396 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mireles Elem Academy logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 46% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Mireles Elem Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mireles Elem Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that 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 Mireles Elem Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bowen High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mireles Elem Academy. On composite proficiency, Mireles Elem Academy comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

Mireles Elem Academy operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Mireles Elem Academy's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 546). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 47% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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