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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Rowe Elementary administration to hear?
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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006142
Rowe Elementary
1424 N Cleaver St, Chicago, IL 60642 · (773) 799-2730 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
422 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 | 49 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 72 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 49% smaller than its 8th grade class (96).
Student demographics
51%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
21.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.7pp since 2023
Math
7.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 7.7% |
| 2023-24 | 13.3% | 5.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
13.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 32% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Rowe Elementary
Rowe Elementary's state test result (13.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowe Elementary this school | 617 | 68.4% | 13.8% |
| CICS - Bucktown Campus Chicago | 518 | 67.2% | 23.4% |
| Independence Elementary School Bolingbrook | 617 | 67.9% | 36.7% |
| Oak View Elementary School Bolingbrook | 636 | 67.6% | 39.8% |
| Central Park Elementary School Midlothian | 640 | 67.5% | 26.5% |
| Swan Hillman Elementary School Rockford | 581 | 74.5% | 27.3% |
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 Rowe Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.8% | #1,794 of 1,925 | #689 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.7% | #1,972 of 2,077 ▼ 148 | #756 of 829 ▼ 90 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #1,903 of 2,077 ▼ 77 | #750 of 829 ▼ 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #243 of 2,419 | #137 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,692 of 2,035 | #708 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.2% | #882 of 2,042 | #320 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.4% | #769 of 2,132 | #468 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.0% | #63 of 1,461 | #42 of 661 |
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
617
-365 (-37%) vs 2020
+149% since 2010-11, when it was 248
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 | 617 | 39 | 15.8:1 | 68% (422) |
| 2023-24 | 704 | 54 | 13.0:1 | 69% (486) |
| 2022-23 | 757 | 65.5 | 11.6:1 | 70% (532) |
| 2020-21 | 982 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,012 | N/A | N/A | 85% (865) |
| 2015-16 | 806 | 45 | 17.9:1 | 81% (651) |
| 2010-11 | 248 | 21 | 11.8:1 | 90% (222) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rowe Elementary.
About Rowe Elementary
At 1424 N Cleaver St in Chicago, Illinois, Rowe Elementary operates as a large elementary school. In all, 617 students attend the school in kindergarten through 8. The school is 62% larger than the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Rowe Elementary is among 622 schools run by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which serves 324,396 students.
Hispanic students are 65% of those enrolled at Rowe Elementary. Beyond that, enrollment is 24% Black and 9% multiracial. In Cook County overall, about 27% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 51% means there is a 51% chance two randomly chosen students at Rowe Elementary are from different groups.
There are 39 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 15.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is lower. Of all students at Rowe Elementary, 68% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Test results at Rowe Elementary are 18.2 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 13.8%, compared with a predicted 32.0%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Illinois.
American Community Survey estimates for Cook County show that median household income comes to about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
Lozano Elementary Bilingual & Intl Center is less than a tenth of a mile from Rowe Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Rowe Elementary ranks 7th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Rowe Elementary is coded as City: Large in federal locale data. Rowe Elementary is one of the charter schools in Illinois.
The school shrank from 982 students in 2020-21 to 617 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Rowe Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Rowe Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Rowe Elementary. Rowe Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Rowe ElementaryRowe, MA · 54 students
Nearby schools
- Lozano Elementary Bilingual & Intl Center0.1 mi · 256
- Burr Elementary School0.4 mi · 465
- Noble St Chtr-Noble Campus0.5 mi · 696
- LaSalle II Lang Academy Elementary School0.6 mi · 589
- Wells Community Academy High School0.6 mi · 398
- Pritzker Elementary School0.7 mi · 674
Frequently asked questions
About Rowe ElementaryHow large is Rowe Elementary?
Rowe Elementary enrolls approximately 617 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Rowe Elementary serve?
Rowe Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does Rowe Elementary have?
Rowe Elementary employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Rowe Elementary?
At Rowe Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 65% Hispanic, 24% Black, 9% Two or more.
Is Rowe Elementary public or private?
Rowe Elementary is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.