Pilsen Elem Community Academy

Located at 1420 W 17th St, in Chicago, Illinois, Pilsen Elem Community Academy is a tight-knit elementary-level community that hosts 217 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Pilsen Elem Community Academy is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that hosts 324,396 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pilsen Elem Community Academy reports that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 10% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

In terms of school funding signals, Pilsen Elem Community Academy shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pilsen Elem Community Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.3%, the actual is 16.3%, a residual of -1.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Pilsen Elem Community Academy is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Acero Chtr - Bartolome de las, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pilsen Elem Community Academy. On composite proficiency, Pilsen Elem Community Academy comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

Pilsen Elem Community Academy operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 33%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 217 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.