Oglesby Elem School

Oglesby Elem School, a cozy elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, educates 293 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Oglesby Elem School sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Oglesby Elem School reports that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at Oglesby Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oglesby Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 13.9%.

In the broader community, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Oglesby Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oglesby Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 12.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oglesby Elem School has declined 40%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 293 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 100% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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