Prussing Elem School

Prussing Elem School is an elementary school of sizable scale in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, hosting 642 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 69% bigger than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Prussing Elem School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% White, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prussing Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.8%; this one delivers 35.9%.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Prussing Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rickover Naval Academy High Schl, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prussing Elem School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 734 students in 2018 compared to 642 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 42% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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