New Field Elem School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, New Field Elem School is a reasonably sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It instructs 541 students across grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 42% above the state mean of about 381.

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

On the student-mix side, New Field Elem School lists that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Black, 13% White, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, New Field Elem School logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting New Field Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Field Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 New Field Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Chicago Math & Sci Elem Charter, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts New Field Elem School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 25.3%.

New Field Elem School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 704 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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