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Enrollment
463
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001040
Prescott Elementary School
1632 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 · (773) 534-5505 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL463 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
128 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 42 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 33 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 82% larger than its 8th grade class (33).
Student demographics
70%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Prescott Elementary School→Lincoln Park High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
83.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +4.2pp since 2023
Math
66.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.7% | 66.9% |
| 2023-24 | 79.5% | 58.5% |
% 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
73.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% 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 18 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 Prescott Elementary School
Prescott Elementary School's state test result (73.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott Elementary School this school | 463 | 27.6% | 73.5% |
| Disney II Elementary School Chicago | 422 | 29.1% | 61.2% |
| Churchill Elementary School Oswego | 425 | 22.1% | 56.4% |
| Westmore Elementary School Lombard | 432 | 33.3% | 54.9% |
| Burr Elementary School Chicago | 465 | 24.1% | 62.8% |
| Ravenswood Elementary School Chicago | 522 | 32.2% | 66.0% |
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 Prescott Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #81 of 1,925 | #30 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #275 of 2,077 ▼ 100 | #97 of 829 ▼ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.7% | #77 of 2,077 ▼ 54 | #37 of 829 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 463 | #693 of 2,419 | #323 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #1,544 of 2,035 | #667 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #158 of 2,042 | #75 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.6% | #1,824 of 2,132 | #722 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.2% | #362 of 615 | #108 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
463
-54 (-10%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 475
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 | 463 | 30.8 | 15.1:1 | 28% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 33.5 | 12.3:1 | 31% (129) |
| 2022-23 | 404 | 32.5 | 12.4:1 | 30% (122) |
| 2020-21 | 517 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 432 | 23.2 | 18.6:1 | 46% (197) |
| 2015-16 | 364 | 19 | 19.2:1 | 47% (171) |
| 2010-11 | 205 | 11 | 18.6:1 | 80% (165) |
| 2000-01 | 339 | 21 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 475 | 26 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prescott Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (432 to 463); teachers up 33% (23.2 to 30.8).
About Prescott Elementary School
Prescott Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Chicago, Illinois. The school counted 463 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 8. It has 22% more students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
Prescott Elementary School reports to Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which has 622 schools and 324,396 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Prescott Elementary School is White, with 44% of students. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% Asian, and 8% multiracial. In Cook County overall, the White share is about 44%. The diversity index for Prescott Elementary School is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.1:1. The school has 30.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is 13.9:1. Federal data show 28% of students (128) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Cook County, the average eligibility rate is 66%.
Prescott Elementary School is 18.0 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Illinois.
The school is in Cook County, where the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Cook County, 1,406 public schools serve about 697,934 students.
Of the public schools around it, Prescott Elementary School is closest to Burley Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Prescott Elementary School places 3rd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 517 (2020-21) to 463 (2024-25).
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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
Other Prescott Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Prescott Elementary. Prescott Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 485 students
- PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPRESCOTT, AR · 363 students
- Prescott Elementary SchoolDubuque, IA · 352 students
- Prescott Elementary SchoolPortland, OR · 268 students
- Prescott Elementary SchoolPRESCOTT, WA · 139 students
Nearby schools
- Burley Elementary School0.6 mi · 494
- Alcott College Prep0.7 mi · 373
- Mayer Elementary School0.8 mi · 707
- CICS - Bucktown Campus0.8 mi · 518
- Jahn Elementary School0.8 mi · 360
- Harriet Tubman Elementary School0.8 mi · 308
Frequently asked questions
About Prescott Elementary SchoolHow large is Prescott Elementary School?
Prescott Elementary School enrolls approximately 463 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Prescott Elementary School serve?
Prescott Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Prescott Elementary School?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at Prescott Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Prescott Elementary School?
Student demographics at Prescott Elementary School are roughly 44% White, 29% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Prescott Elementary School in?
Prescott Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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