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Enrollment
653
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000988
Nettelhorst Elementary School
3252 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60657 · (773) 534-5810 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL653 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
126 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 | 54 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 67 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 46 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 18% larger than its 8th grade class (62).
Student demographics
65%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
Nettelhorst Elementary School→Lake View 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
72.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.6pp since 2023
Math
60.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.3% | 60.9% |
| 2023-24 | 64.7% | 54.8% |
% 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
65.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Nettelhorst Elementary School
Nettelhorst Elementary School's state test result (65.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nettelhorst Elementary School this school | 653 | 19.3% | 65.9% |
| Walkers Grove Elementary School Plainfield | 634 | 21.8% | 74.0% |
| Conley Elementary School Algonquin | 598 | 23.4% | 63.8% |
| Lincoln Elementary Plainfield | 536 | 21.8% | 69.7% |
| Millburn Elementary School Old Mill Creek | 711 | 20.5% | 63.9% |
| Edgebrook Elementary School Chicago | 554 | 15.2% | 68.7% |
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 Nettelhorst Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #189 of 1,925 | #66 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #393 of 2,077 ▼ 162 | #132 of 829 ▼ 47 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #291 of 2,077 ▼ 109 | #109 of 829 ▼ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 653 | #179 of 2,419 | #110 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,438 of 2,035 | #635 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #384 of 2,042 | #151 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.3% | #1,970 of 2,132 | #747 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.8% | #538 of 1,461 | #309 of 661 |
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
653
-77 (-11%) vs 2020
+59% since 1990-91, when it was 410
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 | 653 | 44.8 | 14.6:1 | 19% (126) |
| 2023-24 | 650 | 45.3 | 14.4:1 | 20% (132) |
| 2022-23 | 625 | 50.5 | 12.4:1 | 18% (115) |
| 2020-21 | 730 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 794 | 44.6 | 17.8:1 | 24% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 821 | 47 | 17.5:1 | 24% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 694 | 36 | 19.3:1 | 25% (176) |
| 2000-01 | 538 | 33 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 410 | 35 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nettelhorst Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (794 to 653); teachers unchanged (44.6 to 44.8).
About Nettelhorst Elementary School
Nettelhorst Elementary School sits in Chicago, Illinois, and is classified as an elementary school. A total of 653 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 8. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 381 students, so this school is 71% bigger than average.
Nettelhorst Elementary School is one of 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which enrolls 324,396 students in total.
At Nettelhorst Elementary School, White students make up 55% of the student body. The remaining shares are 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Asian, and 8% Black. Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Nettelhorst Elementary School employs 44.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 14.6:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Nettelhorst Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 19%. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Nettelhorst Elementary School, the prediction is 60.4% and the result is 65.9%.
Cook County has about 5,182,090 residents, and the median household income is $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. In all, Cook County has 1,406 public schools and roughly 697,934 students.
Inter-American Elementary Magnet School is located about 0.6 miles from Nettelhorst Elementary School. The five-mile area around Nettelhorst Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Nettelhorst Elementary School ranks 5th on proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Nettelhorst Elementary School's enrollment declined 11%, to 653.
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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
- Inter-American Elementary Magnet School0.6 mi · 616
- Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy0.7 mi · 642
- Harriet Tubman Elementary School0.8 mi · 308
- Alcott Elementary School0.8 mi · 567
- Greeley Elementary School0.8 mi · 331
- Disney Elementary Magnet School1.1 mi · 1,384
Frequently asked questions
About Nettelhorst Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Nettelhorst Elementary School?
Nettelhorst Elementary School enrolls approximately 653 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Nettelhorst Elementary School serve?
Nettelhorst Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does Nettelhorst Elementary School have?
Nettelhorst Elementary School employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Nettelhorst Elementary School?
Student demographics at Nettelhorst Elementary School are roughly 55% White, 15% Hispanic, 8% Black, 10% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Nettelhorst Elementary School in?
Nettelhorst Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.