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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001010
Oriole Park Elementary School
5424 N Oketo Ave, Chicago, IL 60656 · (773) 534-1201 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% of Illinois public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
151 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 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 24% smaller than its 8th grade class (79).
Student demographics
56%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
Oriole Park Elementary School→Taft 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
70.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.6pp since 2023
Math
61.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 61.2% |
| 2023-24 | 62.4% | 46.1% |
% 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
63.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Oriole Park Elementary School
Oriole Park Elementary School's state test result (63.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oriole Park Elementary School this school | 617 | 24.5% | 63.8% |
| Chesak Elementary School Lake in the Hills | 643 | 26.9% | N/A |
| Waters Elementary School Chicago | 702 | 22.9% | 64.8% |
| Grande Reserve Elementary School Yorkville | 728 | 22.4% | 49.4% |
| Robert Crown School Wauconda | 776 | 23.5% | 58.4% |
| Oakland Elementary School Lake Villa | 515 | 25.2% | 59.9% |
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 Oriole Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.8% | #234 of 1,925 | #81 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.2% | #383 of 2,077 ▲ 11 | #131 of 829 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #347 of 2,077 ▼ 132 | #127 of 829 ▼ 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #242 of 2,419 | #136 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #934 of 2,035 | #429 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #729 of 2,042 | #258 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.5% | #1,879 of 2,132 | #731 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.8% | #539 of 1,461 | #310 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
617
-63 (-9%) vs 2020
+90% since 1990-91, when it was 325
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 | 617 | 47 | 13.1:1 | 24% (151) |
| 2023-24 | 589 | 41 | 14.4:1 | 26% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 602 | 44 | 13.7:1 | 22% (135) |
| 2020-21 | 680 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 751 | 43.8 | 17.2:1 | 26% (194) |
| 2015-16 | 706 | 37 | 19.1:1 | 25% (174) |
| 2010-11 | 645 | 32 | 20.2:1 | 17% (110) |
| 2000-01 | 410 | 21 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 325 | 15 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oriole Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (751 to 617); teachers up 7% (43.8 to 47).
About Oriole Park Elementary School
Federal records list Oriole Park Elementary School as an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. Students in pre-K through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 617 students. The average among elementary schools in Illinois is roughly 381 students; this school is 62% above that.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 is made up of 622 schools with 324,396 students in all.
At 60%, White students outnumber all other groups at Oriole Park Elementary School combined. After that, the student body is 27% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. Among all residents of Cook County, the White share is about 44%. By the diversity index, Oriole Park Elementary School comes in at 56%.
Oriole Park Elementary School operates with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 13.1:1. That ratio is under the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Oriole Park Elementary School reports 24% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 42 points.
The allk12 Grade for Oriole Park Elementary School is A-. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 80% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Oriole Park Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 63.8% and a predicted 57.4%.
Cook County census figures show that median household income is about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. A total of 1,406 public schools operate in Cook County, serving about 697,934 students.
Garvy J Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Oriole Park Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 617, 9% below the 680 of 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 Oriole Park Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Oriole Park Elementary. Oriole Park Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Oriole Park Elementary SchoolWYOMING, MI · 277 students
Nearby schools
- Garvy J Elementary School0.9 mi · 736
- Norwood Park Elementary School0.9 mi · 314
- Edison Park Elementary School1.1 mi · 411
- Taft High School1.2 mi · 4,487
- Union Ridge Elementary School1.2 mi · 664
- Ridgewood Comm High School1.2 mi · 988
Frequently asked questions
About Oriole Park Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Oriole Park Elementary School?
Oriole Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 617 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Oriole Park Elementary School serve?
Oriole Park Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oriole Park Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oriole Park Elementary School is approximately 13.1:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Oriole Park Elementary School?
Student demographics at Oriole Park Elementary School are roughly 60% White, 27% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Oriole Park Elementary School public or private?
Oriole Park Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.