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Enrollment
643
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001011
Piccolo Elementary Specialty School
1040 N Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60651 · (773) 534-4425 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL643 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
593 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 | 71 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 11% smaller than its 8th grade class (66).
Student demographics
45%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
29.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +18.2pp since 2023
Math
10.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.9% | 10.2% |
| 2023-24 | 11.7% | 3.8% |
% 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
19.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 Piccolo Elementary Specialty School
Piccolo Elementary Specialty School's state test result (19.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piccolo Elementary Specialty School this school | 643 | 92.2% | 19.2% |
| Lynne Thigpen Elementary School Joliet | 620 | 93.9% | 18.9% |
| Farragut Elementary School Joliet | 568 | 94.2% | 15.9% |
| Morrill Elementary Math & Sci School Chicago | 600 | 96.2% | 21.0% |
| Pershing Elementary School Joliet | 621 | 96.1% | 18.3% |
| McKay Elementary School Chicago | 616 | 96.8% | 14.0% |
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 Piccolo Elementary Specialty School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #1,631 of 1,925 | #584 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.2% | #1,893 of 2,077 ▲ 32 | #704 of 829 ▲ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #1,671 of 2,077 ▲ 205 | #609 of 829 ▲ 132 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 643 | #190 of 2,419 | #115 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #363 of 2,035 | #194 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.9% | #1,038 of 2,042 | #383 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.2% | #227 of 2,132 | #164 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.0% | #364 of 615 | #109 of 186 |
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
643
+122 (+23%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 1,036
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 | 643 | 56.5 | 11.4:1 | 92% (593) |
| 2023-24 | 635 | 50.5 | 12.6:1 | 92% (584) |
| 2022-23 | 571 | 46.5 | 12.3:1 | 91% (518) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 601 | 34.7 | 17.3:1 | 99% (597) |
| 2015-16 | 579 | 30 | 19.3:1 | 98% (568) |
| 2010-11 | 591 | 31 | 19.1:1 | 92% (542) |
| 2000-01 | 799 | 35 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,036 | 49 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Piccolo Elementary Specialty School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (601 to 643); teachers up 63% (34.7 to 56.5).
About Piccolo Elementary Specialty School
Piccolo Elementary Specialty School is a large elementary school. Its address is in Chicago, Illinois. It has an enrollment of 643 students in pre-K through 8. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (622 schools, 324,396 students) runs Piccolo Elementary Specialty School.
About 68% of the student body at Piccolo Elementary Specialty School is Hispanic. Other students are 31% Black. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 27% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 45, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 56.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, Piccolo Elementary Specialty School has a ratio of 11.4:1. Compared with the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 92%. It compares with 66% for public schools in Cook County.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 18.3% at Piccolo Elementary Specialty School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 19.2%.
In the surrounding county, Cook County, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Piccolo Elementary Specialty School.
Nobel Elementary School is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Piccolo Elementary Specialty School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Piccolo Elementary Specialty School places 3rd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
NCES assigns Piccolo Elementary Specialty School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Piccolo Elementary Specialty School enrolled 521 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 643.
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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
- Nobel Elementary School0.4 mi · 592
- West Park Elementary Academy0.5 mi · 442
- KIPP One Academy0.5 mi · 996
- Orr Academy High School0.5 mi · 361
- Cameron Elementary School0.8 mi · 671
- Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Academy0.8 mi · 320
Frequently asked questions
About Piccolo Elementary Specialty SchoolHow large is Piccolo Elementary Specialty School?
Piccolo Elementary Specialty School enrolls approximately 643 students in grades PK-08.
Is Piccolo Elementary Specialty School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Piccolo Elementary Specialty School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Piccolo Elementary Specialty School?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at Piccolo Elementary Specialty School.
How diverse is Piccolo Elementary Specialty School?
Piccolo Elementary Specialty School reports a student body of 1% White, 68% Hispanic, 31% Black.
What district is Piccolo Elementary Specialty School in?
Piccolo Elementary Specialty School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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