Park Manor Elem School

Park Manor Elem School, a modestly sized K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, caters to 313 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

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

On demographics, Park Manor Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%); the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Park Manor Elem School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Park Manor Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.4%, the actual is 15.0%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the area at large, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Park Manor Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Park Manor Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 13.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Park Manor Elem School's enrollment has rose 11% since 2018, when it stood at 283 (now 313). Hispanic enrollment moved from 1% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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