Salazar Elem Bilingual Center

Located at 160 W Wendell St, in Chicago, Illinois, Salazar Elem Bilingual Center is a medium-sized elementary-level community that educates 351 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Salazar Elem Bilingual Center is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Salazar Elem Bilingual Center lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Salazar Elem Bilingual Center records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Salazar Elem Bilingual Center higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Salazar Elem Bilingual Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.4%, the actual is 20.7%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cook County put 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 Salazar Elem Bilingual Center is one.

The closest other public school is Payton College Preparatory HS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Salazar Elem Bilingual Center at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 348 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 34% to 9% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Salazar Elem Bilingual Center typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.