Enrollment
351
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001215
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center
160 W Wendell St, Chicago, IL 60610 · (773) 534-8310 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL351 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
329 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 34 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 46 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 33% smaller than its 8th grade class (46).
Student demographics
24%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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
27.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.8pp since 2023
Math
16.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.3% | 16.8% |
| 2023-24 | 10.5% | 6.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center's state test result (20.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center this school | 351 | 93.7% | 20.7% |
| Lara Elementary Academy Chicago | 362 | 91.4% | 20.8% |
| Pickard Elementary School Chicago | 319 | 90.6% | 39.8% |
| Kanoon Elementary Magnet School Chicago | 389 | 93.8% | 16.1% |
| Burroughs Elementary School Chicago | 303 | 92.4% | 44.9% |
| Christopher Elementary School Chicago | 315 | 95.9% | 17.0% |
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 Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #1,589 of 1,925 | #556 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,686 of 2,077 ▲ 104 | #579 of 829 ▲ 66 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #1,732 of 2,077 ▲ 177 | #646 of 829 ▲ 113 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 351 | #1,256 of 2,419 | #518 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,453 of 2,035 | #640 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.6% | #1,530 of 2,042 | #572 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.7% | #193 of 2,132 | #139 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.9% | #576 of 615 | #173 of 186 |
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
351
+44 (+14%) vs 2020
+34% since 1990-91, when it was 261
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 | 351 | 24 | 14.6:1 | 94% (329) |
| 2023-24 | 366 | 26 | 14.1:1 | 91% (334) |
| 2022-23 | 274 | 24.5 | 11.2:1 | 89% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 307 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 348 | 17.2 | 20.3:1 | 88% (306) |
| 2015-16 | 362 | 20 | 18.1:1 | 82% (297) |
| 2010-11 | 431 | 21 | 20.5:1 | 77% (330) |
| 2000-01 | 355 | 22 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 261 | 13 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (348 to 351); teachers up 40% (17.2 to 24).
About Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center is a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It reported 351 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center along with 621 other schools, enrolling 324,396 students in total.
The share of students at Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center who are Hispanic is 87%. Other students are 9% Black. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 27% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 24, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center is 14.6:1, based on 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Lunch program data show 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (20.7%) and its predicted rate (17.4%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that median household income comes to about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Payton College Preparatory High School, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center ranks 8th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21, Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center enrolled 307 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 351.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center. 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
Nearby schools
- Payton College Preparatory High School0.1 mi · 1,260
- Ogden Elementary School0.3 mi · 819
- Franklin Elementary Fine Arts Center0.4 mi · 348
- Manierre Elementary School0.5 mi · 269
- Skinner North Elementary School0.6 mi · 515
- Skinner Elementary School0.7 mi · 1,139
Frequently asked questions
About Salazar Elementary Bilingual CenterHow large is Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center?
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center enrolls approximately 351 students in grades PK-08.
Is Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center an elementary, middle, or high school?
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center have?
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center?
Student demographics at Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center are roughly 1% White, 87% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center?
Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.