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Enrollment
1,182
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000974
Mount Greenwood Elementary School
10841 S Homan Ave, Chicago, IL 60655 · (773) 535-2786 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,182 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
185 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 116 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 139 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 121 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 126 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 113 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 134 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 133 | 11% |
| Grade 10 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (133).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Mount Greenwood Elementary School→Morgan Park High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
84.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.8pp since 2023
Math
62.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +13.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.5% | 62.2% |
| 2023-24 | 69.7% | 48.3% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mount Greenwood Elementary School
Mount Greenwood Elementary School's state test result (70.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Greenwood Elementary School this school | 1,182 | 15.7% | 70.0% |
| Middletown Prairie Elementary Mahomet | 805 | 21.6% | N/A |
| Metamora Grade School Metamora | 829 | 21.5% | 63.7% |
| Silver Creek Elementary Troy | 757 | 17.7% | 57.2% |
| Mokena Elementary School Mokena | 709 | 19.5% | 61.7% |
| C A Henning School Troy | 706 | 18.6% | 61.1% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mount Greenwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #124 of 1,925 | #47 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #364 of 2,077 ▼ 20 | #124 of 829 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.5% | #68 of 2,077 ▲ 41 | #34 of 829 ▲ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,182 | #9 of 2,419 | #7 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,858 of 2,035 | #764 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.6% | #1,240 of 2,042 | #459 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.7% | #2,027 of 2,132 | #767 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.2% | #424 of 615 | #129 of 186 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,182
-75 (-6%) vs 2020
+94% since 1990-91, when it was 609
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,182 | 69 | 17.1:1 | 16% (185) |
| 2023-24 | 1,157 | 66 | 17.5:1 | 18% (214) |
| 2022-23 | 1,172 | 64 | 18.3:1 | 12% (145) |
| 2020-21 | 1,257 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,124 | 53.2 | 21.1:1 | 15% (169) |
| 2015-16 | 1,055 | 53 | 19.9:1 | 18% (193) |
| 2010-11 | 834 | 38 | 21.9:1 | 30% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 593 | 31 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 609 | 32 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Greenwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (1,124 to 1,182); teachers up 30% (53.2 to 69).
About Mount Greenwood Elementary School
Mount Greenwood Elementary School runs as a high-enrollment elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. School enrollment was 1,182 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 8. The average among elementary schools in Illinois is roughly 381 students; this school is 210% larger than that.
Across its 622 schools, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students. Mount Greenwood Elementary School is one of those schools.
A majority of students at Mount Greenwood Elementary School, 78%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 17% Hispanic and 3% Black. Among all residents of Cook County, the White share is about 44%. The chance that two students picked at random at Mount Greenwood Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 37%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1 at Mount Greenwood Elementary School, with 69 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is lower than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 16%. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Mount Greenwood Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 85% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 70.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 62.5%.
Cook County census figures show that median household income is about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. A total of 1,406 public schools operate in Cook County, serving about 697,934 students.
Nearby, Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School is about 0.4 miles away. Mount Greenwood Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Mount Greenwood Elementary School's average proficiency of 70.0% compares with 56.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, Mount Greenwood Elementary School is City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 1,257 to 1,182.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other schools in Chicago
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Nearby schools
- Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School0.4 mi · 222
- Cassell Elementary School0.6 mi · 364
- Chicago HS for Agricult Sciences0.7 mi · 827
- Vick Early Childhood & Family Center1.1 mi · 417
- Evergreen Park High School1.2 mi · 941
- Lawn Manor School1.2 mi · 210
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Greenwood Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mount Greenwood Elementary School?
Mount Greenwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,182 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Mount Greenwood Elementary School serve?
Mount Greenwood Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Mount Greenwood Elementary School?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at Mount Greenwood Elementary School.
How diverse is Mount Greenwood Elementary School?
Mount Greenwood Elementary School reports a student body of 78% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Mount Greenwood Elementary School?
Mount Greenwood Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.