Pullman Elem School

Pullman Elem School operates as an intimate K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 303 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 20% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Pullman Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pullman Elem School reports that Black students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 2% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 74% of students at Pullman Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Pullman Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 20.9%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Pullman Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CICS - Prairie Campus, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pullman Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pullman Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 30.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pullman Elem School's enrollment has edged down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 303). The Black share of enrollment declined from 81% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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