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Enrollment
672
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000994
Nixon Elementary School
2121 N Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60639 · (773) 534-4375 · Cook County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL672 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
638 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 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 83 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
8%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
Nixon Elementary School→Kelvyn 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
21.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.8pp since 2023
Math
15.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.3% | 15.3% |
| 2023-24 | 8.5% | 6.1% |
% 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
16.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Nixon Elementary School
Nixon Elementary School's state test result (16.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nixon Elementary School this school | 672 | 94.9% | 16.4% |
| Warren Park School Cicero | 695 | 94.8% | 29.0% |
| Abe Lincoln Elementary School Cicero | 717 | 92.2% | 36.3% |
| Cardenas Elementary School Chicago | 764 | 95.8% | 37.2% |
| Chavez Elementary Multicultural Academy Ct Chicago | 784 | 96.0% | 49.4% |
| Sandoval Elementary School Chicago | 736 | 91.7% | 29.5% |
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 Nixon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.4% | #1,720 of 1,925 | #639 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #1,729 of 2,077 ▲ 80 | #606 of 829 ▲ 53 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #1,897 of 2,077 ▲ 76 | #747 of 829 ▲ 47 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 672 | #158 of 2,419 | #96 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #820 of 2,035 | #390 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.8% | #1,936 of 2,042 | #750 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.9% | #157 of 2,132 | #118 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.0% | #444 of 1,461 | #258 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
672
-27 (-4%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 978
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 | 672 | 52.5 | 12.8:1 | 95% (638) |
| 2023-24 | 644 | 43.5 | 14.8:1 | 93% (598) |
| 2022-23 | 589 | 42 | 14.0:1 | 90% (533) |
| 2020-21 | 699 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 840 | 38.1 | 22.1:1 | 96% (808) |
| 2015-16 | 949 | 46 | 20.6:1 | 97% (925) |
| 2010-11 | 1,054 | 41 | 25.7:1 | 99% (1,047) |
| 2000-01 | 1,159 | 54 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 978 | 38 | 25.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nixon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (840 to 672); teachers up 38% (38.1 to 52.5).
About Nixon Elementary School
Nixon Elementary School, located in Chicago, Illinois, is a large elementary school. It teaches 672 students in pre-K through 6. That is 76% larger than the average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 counts 622 schools and 324,396 students, including Nixon Elementary School.
The share of Hispanic students at Nixon Elementary School is 96%. The next largest groups are 2% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 69 points above the 27% share among Cook County residents. The diversity index for Nixon Elementary School is 8%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Nixon Elementary School comes to 52.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.8:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. Nixon Elementary School counts 95% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 29 points.
Nixon Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 16.4% and a predicted 16.7%.
In Cook County, home to about 5,182,090 people, median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Cook County's 1,406 public schools enroll about 697,934 students and include Nixon Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, Noble St Chtr-Pritzker Col Prep is about 0.3 miles from Nixon Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Nixon Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 699 to 672, a 4% decline.
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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
Other Nixon Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Nixon Elementary. Nixon Elementary School is the largest of the 5.
- Nixon Elementary SchoolEL PASO, TX · 510 students
- Nixon Elementary SchoolMontgomery, AL · 476 students
- Nixon Elementary SchoolHiawatha, IA · 289 students
- Nixon Elementary SchoolLANDING, NJ · 261 students
Nearby schools
- Noble St Chtr-Pritzker Col Prep0.3 mi · 993
- Mozart Elementary School0.5 mi · 499
- Marine Leadership Academy - Ames0.5 mi · 549
- McAuliffe Elementary School0.5 mi · 523
- North-Grand High School0.5 mi · 1,061
- Kelvyn Park High School0.6 mi · 577
Frequently asked questions
About Nixon Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Nixon Elementary School?
Nixon Elementary School enrolls approximately 672 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Nixon Elementary School serve?
Nixon Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Nixon Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Nixon Elementary School is approximately 12.8:1 (53 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Nixon Elementary School?
Nixon Elementary School reports a student body of 0% White, 96% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Nixon Elementary School?
Nixon Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
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