Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch

Located at 6006 S Peoria St, in Chicago, Illinois, Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that hosts 487 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch reports that Black students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 4% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.1%, the actual is 11.8%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Langford An Elem School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 14.1%.

Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nicholson Tech Acad Elem Sch has grew 5%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 487 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 96% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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