Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac

As an average-sized primary school in Chicago, Illinois, Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac works with 390 students from grades pre-K through 8, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac is among them.

Demographically, Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac reports that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.3%; this one delivers 17.0%.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Lara Elem Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 20.6%.

Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Seward Elem Communication Arts Ac's enrollment has fell 43% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 390). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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