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Enrollment
515
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006081
Skinner North Elementary School
640 W Scott St, Chicago, IL 60610 · (773) 534-8500 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL515 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Illinois public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
17.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
62 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 56 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (56).
Student demographics
64%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
97.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
95.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 97.4% | 95.6% |
| 2023-24 | 93.5% | 92.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
95.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+30.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 95% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 31 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Skinner North Elementary School
Skinner North Elementary School's state test result (95.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skinner North Elementary School this school | 515 | 12.0% | 95.2% |
| Fry Elementary School Naperville | 563 | 7.6% | 81.0% |
| Owen Elementary School Naperville | 577 | 17.5% | 61.9% |
| May Watts Elementary School Naperville | 668 | 7.9% | 71.7% |
| Oliver Julian Kendall Elementary School Naperville | 572 | 7.2% | 79.6% |
| Barbara B Rose Elementary School South Barrington | 403 | 10.9% | 76.2% |
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 Skinner North Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 95.2% | #4 of 1,925 | #3 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.6% | #3 of 2,077 no change | #2 of 829 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 97.4% | #2 of 2,077 ▲ 2 | #1 of 829 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 515 | #490 of 2,419 | #239 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #1,846 of 2,035 | #761 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #402 of 2,042 | #156 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.0% | #2,070 of 2,132 | #782 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.3% | #462 of 615 | #143 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
515
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
+212% since 2010-11, when it was 165
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 | 515 | 30.3 | 17.0:1 | 12% (62) |
| 2023-24 | 512 | 30 | 17.1:1 | 13% (67) |
| 2022-23 | 490 | 33 | 14.8:1 | 10% (50) |
| 2020-21 | 510 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 494 | 24.6 | 20.1:1 | 13% (64) |
| 2015-16 | 477 | 24 | 19.9:1 | 14% (66) |
| 2010-11 | 165 | 8 | 20.6:1 | 28% (46) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Skinner North Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (494 to 515); teachers up 23% (24.6 to 30.3).
About Skinner North Elementary School
This page covers Skinner North Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The school serves kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 515 students. It has 35% more students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 324,396 students in 622 schools, and Skinner North Elementary School is one of those schools.
The share of Asian students at Skinner North Elementary School is 53%, a majority. Smaller groups are 24% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 4% Black. For comparison, the population of Cook County is roughly 8% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
A staff of 30.3 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 17.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 12%. Across public schools in Cook County, the average is 66%.
Skinner North Elementary School earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 99% of Illinois public elementary schools.
A school in Illinois with Skinner North Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 64.6%. Skinner North Elementary School scores 95.2%.
In the wider Cook County area, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Cook County, 1,406 public schools serve about 697,934 students.
Skinner North Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Skinner Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Skinner North Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 515, close to the 510 recorded in 2020-21.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Skinner North Elementary School. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
- Skinner Elementary School0.1 mi · 1,139
- Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy0.2 mi · 415
- Manierre Elementary School0.3 mi · 269
- Franklin Elementary Fine Arts Center0.4 mi · 348
- Payton College Preparatory High School0.5 mi · 1,260
- Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center0.6 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About Skinner North Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Skinner North Elementary School?
Skinner North Elementary School enrolls approximately 515 students in grades KG-08.
Is Skinner North Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Skinner North Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Skinner North Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Skinner North Elementary School is approximately 17.0:1 (30 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Skinner North Elementary School?
Skinner North Elementary School reports a student body of 24% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 53% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Skinner North Elementary School in?
Skinner North Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.