Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001004
Oglesby Elementary School
7646 S Green St, Chicago, IL 60620 · (773) 535-3060 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
224 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 18 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 22 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 19% smaller than its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
15%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
Oglesby Elementary School→Bogan 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
24.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.6pp since 2023
Math
8.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 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 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.4% | 8.4% |
| 2023-24 | 11.8% | 2.7% |
% 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
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Oglesby Elementary School
Oglesby Elementary School's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oglesby Elementary School this school | 293 | 76.5% | 13.9% |
| Fort Dearborn Elementary School Chicago | 298 | 75.5% | 16.0% |
| Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood Chicago | 304 | 77.6% | 35.5% |
| Gillespie Elementary School Chicago | 288 | 79.9% | 18.2% |
| Bennett Elementary School Chicago | 312 | 80.4% | 23.0% |
| Barnard Elementary Comp Math & Sci Center Chicago | 243 | 76.1% | 27.4% |
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 Oglesby Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #1,789 of 1,925 | #686 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.4% | #1,956 of 2,077 ▲ 32 | #745 of 829 ▲ 34 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #1,821 of 2,077 ▲ 52 | #704 of 829 ▲ 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #1,576 of 2,419 | #648 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,457 of 2,035 | #641 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.7% | #1,767 of 2,042 | #667 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.5% | #591 of 2,132 | #388 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -40.4% | #54 of 1,461 | #36 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
293
-74 (-20%) vs 2020
-62% since 1990-91, when it was 775
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 | 293 | 20 | 14.7:1 | 76% (224) |
| 2023-24 | 270 | 16 | 16.9:1 | 96% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 264 | 24 | 11.0:1 | 98% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 367 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 492 | 27.4 | 18.0:1 | 98% (482) |
| 2015-16 | 478 | 28 | 17.1:1 | 96% (460) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 24 | 17.2:1 | 99% (410) |
| 2000-01 | 759 | 35 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 775 | 38 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oglesby Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 40% (492 to 293); teachers down 27% (27.4 to 20).
About Oglesby Elementary School
Oglesby Elementary School is a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It enrolls 293 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 23% below the 381-student average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 is made up of 622 schools with 324,396 students in all.
Black students account for 92% of the school's enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 6% Hispanic. Among all residents of Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 15%.
There are about 14.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Oglesby Elementary School, which has 20. Elementary schools in Illinois have an average ratio of 13.9:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 76%. The rate at public schools in Cook County averages 66%, lower than here.
Oglesby Elementary School is 13.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (13.9% versus 27.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Illinois.
In Cook County, median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
The closest school to Oglesby Elementary School is YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst High School, located about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Oglesby Elementary School is 4th of 9 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 20% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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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
- YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst High School0.3 mi · 94
- Stagg Elementary School0.3 mi · 377
- Westcott Elementary School0.7 mi · 387
- Harvard Elementary School0.7 mi · 335
- King Academy of Social Justice0.8 mi · 213
- Bond Elementary School0.8 mi · 233
Frequently asked questions
About Oglesby Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Oglesby Elementary School?
Oglesby Elementary School enrolls approximately 293 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Oglesby Elementary School serve?
Oglesby Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oglesby Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oglesby Elementary School is approximately 14.7:1 (20 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Oglesby Elementary School?
Oglesby Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 6% Hispanic, 92% Black.
Is Oglesby Elementary School public or private?
Oglesby Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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