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What's the most underrated thing about Schubert Elem School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
568
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001079
Schubert Elementary School
2727 N Long Ave, Chicago, IL 60639 · (773) 534-3080 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL568 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
12.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
456 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 57 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
11%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Schubert Elementary School→Foreman High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
27.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +16.5pp since 2023
Math
17.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.8% | 17.9% |
| 2023-24 | 11.3% | 2.9% |
% 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
18.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Schubert Elementary School
Schubert Elementary School's state test result (18.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schubert Elementary School this school | 568 | 80.3% | 18.9% |
| Addams Elementary School Chicago | 544 | 78.3% | 36.6% |
| Sherlock Elementary School Cicero | 583 | 82.5% | 28.3% |
| Washington G Elementary School Chicago | 571 | 77.8% | 44.5% |
| Belmont-Cragin Elementary School Chicago | 518 | 77.6% | 18.0% |
| Calmeca Academy Elementary School Chicago | 605 | 82.6% | 18.1% |
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 Schubert Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #1,638 of 1,925 | #587 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #1,661 of 2,077 ▲ 313 | #565 of 829 ▲ 201 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #1,716 of 2,077 ▲ 177 | #636 of 829 ▲ 115 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 568 | #339 of 2,419 | #181 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #863 of 2,035 | #404 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.8% | #1,870 of 2,042 | #714 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.3% | #498 of 2,132 | #343 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #294 of 1,461 | #189 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
568
-43 (-7%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 735
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 | 568 | 44 | 12.9:1 | 80% (456) |
| 2023-24 | 557 | 42.5 | 13.1:1 | 91% (507) |
| 2022-23 | 540 | 42.5 | 12.7:1 | 92% (496) |
| 2020-21 | 611 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 755 | 38.2 | 19.8:1 | 94% (709) |
| 2015-16 | 916 | 44 | 20.8:1 | 95% (872) |
| 2010-11 | 989 | 45 | 22.0:1 | 99% (978) |
| 2000-01 | 1,286 | 60 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 735 | 48 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Schubert Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (755 to 568); teachers up 15% (38.2 to 44).
About Schubert Elementary School
At 2727 N Long Ave in Chicago, Illinois, Schubert Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 568 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students in 622 schools, including Schubert Elementary School.
Most students at Schubert Elementary School are Hispanic: 94% of enrollment. Other groups include 4% White. The county population is about 27% Hispanic. Schubert Elementary School has a diversity index of 11%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
A ratio of 12.9:1 comes from the school's 44 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 80% of students at Schubert Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
The allk12 Grade for Schubert Elementary School is D. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 11% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schubert Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (18.9%) and its predicted rate (25.1%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Cook County has these Census figures: median household income is about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The public schools of Cook County number 1,406 and enroll about 697,934.
The shortest distance from Schubert Elementary School to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to Hanson Park Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Schubert Elementary School is 8th among 9 schools close by.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Schubert Elementary School saw enrollment fall 7% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
- Hanson Park Elementary School0.5 mi · 1,125
- Prieto Math-Science Elementary School0.5 mi · 733
- Christopher House Chrt Elementary School0.6 mi · 502
- Horizon Science Academy-Belmont0.6 mi · 785
- Camras Elementary School0.6 mi · 702
- Northwest Middle School0.6 mi · 532
Frequently asked questions
About Schubert Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Schubert Elementary School?
Schubert Elementary School enrolls approximately 568 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Schubert Elementary School serve?
Schubert Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Schubert Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Schubert Elementary School is approximately 12.9:1 (44 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Schubert Elementary School?
Schubert Elementary School reports a student body of 4% White, 94% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Schubert Elementary School?
Schubert Elementary School 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.