Reinberg Elem School

Reinberg Elem School is an elementary campus of substantial scale in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, enrolling 768 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Reinberg Elem School sits 102% above that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Reinberg Elem School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 15% White, 4% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Reinberg Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.3%.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $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), Reinberg Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Chicago Academy High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Reinberg Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Reinberg Elem School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Reinberg Elem School has edged down 3%, going from 794 students in 2018 to 768 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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