Sawyer Elem School

Sawyer Elem School is one of the roomy elementary campuss in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 885 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Sawyer Elem School sits 132% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Sawyer Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sawyer Elem School reports that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Sawyer Elem School has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Sawyer Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sawyer Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Sawyer Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sawyer Elem School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 43%: 1,552 students in 2018 compared to 885 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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