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Enrollment
620
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001023
Pasteur Elementary School
5825 S Kostner Ave, Chicago, IL 60629 · (773) 535-2270 · Cook County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL620 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
534 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 | 84 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 118 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 5% larger than its 4th grade class (97).
Student demographics
9%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
56.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +25.4pp since 2023
Math
60.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +26.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 25 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 26 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.3% | 60.3% |
| 2023-24 | 30.9% | 34.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Pasteur Elementary School
Pasteur Elementary School's state test result (51.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pasteur Elementary School this school | 620 | 86.1% | 51.6% |
| Woodrow Wilson Elementary School Cicero | 622 | 86.2% | 23.9% |
| Lakewood School Carpentersville | 590 | 86.9% | 20.9% |
| Gunsaulus Elementary Scholastic Academy Chicago | 658 | 86.0% | 35.4% |
| Garcia Lorca Elementary School Chicago | 637 | 87.0% | 33.1% |
| Columbia Explorers Elementary Academy Chicago | 718 | 86.2% | 46.0% |
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 Pasteur Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #546 of 1,925 | #149 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #409 of 2,077 ▲ 266 | #135 of 829 ▲ 71 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #793 of 2,077 ▲ 346 | #248 of 829 ▲ 128 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 620 | #230 of 2,419 | #131 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #1,642 of 2,035 | #692 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.8% | #1,914 of 2,042 | #739 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.1% | #383 of 2,132 | #275 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #767 of 1,461 | #404 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
620
+17 (+3%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 465
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 | 620 | 40 | 15.5:1 | 86% (534) |
| 2023-24 | 619 | 36.5 | 17.0:1 | 88% (542) |
| 2022-23 | 585 | 38.5 | 15.2:1 | 87% (508) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 712 | 32.7 | 21.8:1 | 92% (655) |
| 2015-16 | 1,218 | 62 | 19.6:1 | 93% (1,136) |
| 2010-11 | 1,179 | 59 | 20.0:1 | 93% (1,091) |
| 2000-01 | 1,021 | 45 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 465 | 22 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pasteur Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (712 to 620); teachers up 22% (32.7 to 40).
About Pasteur Elementary School
Pasteur Elementary School is an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, and it is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It teaches 620 students in pre-K through 4. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
District-wide, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
Of every 100 students at Pasteur Elementary School, about 95 are Hispanic. That is higher than the 27% Hispanic share among all Cook County residents. A diversity index of 9% means there is a 9% chance two randomly chosen students at Pasteur Elementary School are from different groups.
The school had 40 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 15.5:1. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is 13.9:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 86%. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 20 points.
Pasteur Elementary School is a top-10% school in Illinois on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 21.8% with an actual 51.6%.
For Cook County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $83,498 a year, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Richardson Middle School is the nearest public school to Pasteur Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of Pasteur Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Pasteur Elementary School is ahead of the 28.3% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 9.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a gain of 17 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Pasteur Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Pasteur Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Pasteur Elementary. Pasteur Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Pasteur Elementary SchoolDETROIT, MI · 310 students
Nearby schools
- Richardson Middle School0.4 mi · 844
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz0.5 mi · 542
- Peck Elementary School0.7 mi · 777
- Lee Elementary School0.8 mi · 581
- Hubbard High School0.9 mi · 1,710
- YCCS-Youth Connection Leadership0.9 mi · 100
Frequently asked questions
About Pasteur Elementary SchoolHow large is Pasteur Elementary School?
Pasteur Elementary School enrolls approximately 620 students in grades PK-04.
Is Pasteur Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pasteur Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Pasteur Elementary School have?
Pasteur Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
How diverse is Pasteur Elementary School?
Pasteur Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Pasteur Elementary School public or private?
Pasteur 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.