Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C

Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 216 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 43% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 73% of students at Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.5%, the actual is 17.2%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C is one campus in the mix.

Dixon Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pirie Elem Fine Arts & Academic C has declined 18%, going from 263 students in 2018 to 216 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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