Plato Learning Acad Elem School

Plato Learning Acad Elem School, a compact elementary-level community in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, hosts 157 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Plato Learning Acad Elem School sits 59% below that benchmark.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Plato Learning Acad Elem School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Plato Learning Acad Elem School reports that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Plato Learning Acad Elem School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Plato Learning Acad Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.2%, the actual is 4.4%, a residual of -10.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Plato Learning Acad Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Depriest Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Plato Learning Acad Elem School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 59%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 157 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 35.2:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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