Sabin Elem Magnet School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Sabin Elem Magnet School is a medium-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It educates 354 students across grades pre-K through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, Sabin Elem Magnet School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%; the rest reads as 21% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Sabin Elem Magnet School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sabin Elem Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.4%, the actual is 12.8%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Sabin Elem Magnet School is one.

Nearest neighbor: De Diego Elem Community Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sabin Elem Magnet School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sabin Elem Magnet School has decreased 39%, going from 585 students in 2018 to 354 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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