Neil Elem School

Neil Elem School is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 258 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Neil Elem School sits 32% below that benchmark.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Neil Elem School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Neil Elem School shows that nearly all students (93%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Neil Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.7%, the actual is 18.3%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Neil Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Neil Elem School. On composite proficiency, Neil Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

Neil Elem School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 262 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 99% to 93% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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