Owen Elem Scholastic Academy

Owen Elem Scholastic Academy is a compact K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school works with 281 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 26% below typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Owen Elem Scholastic Academy lists that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Owen Elem Scholastic Academy reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Owen Elem Scholastic Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 28.7%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Owen Elem Scholastic Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Ashburn Community Elem School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Owen Elem Scholastic Academy ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 268 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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