Reilly Elem School

Reilly Elem School is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, caters to 539 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Reilly Elem School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Reilly Elem School logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 3% White, 2% Black, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

In terms of school funding signals, Reilly Elem School records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Reilly Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.4%; this one delivers 22.2%.

Around the school, 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Reilly Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Garcia Lorca Elem School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Reilly Elem School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 42%: 924 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Reilly Elem School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.