Enrollment
224
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006099
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School
1415 E 70th St, Chicago, IL 60637 · (773) 535-8340 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL224 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% 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.
- CBeats 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
9.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
142 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 | 47 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 19 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 17 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 16 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 17 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 18 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 20 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 26 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 16 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (19) is 19% larger than its 8th grade class (16).
Student demographics
9%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
41.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +23.0pp since 2023
Math
23.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.9% | 23.5% |
| 2023-24 | 18.9% | 15.1% |
% 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
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School this school | 224 | 63.4% | 32.5% |
| Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justic Chicago | 225 | 61.3% | 21.5% |
| Hoyne Elementary School Chicago | 230 | 69.6% | 33.9% |
| Vanderpoel Elementary Magnet School Chicago | 241 | 56.8% | 22.9% |
| Owen Elementary Scholastic Academy Chicago | 281 | 58.4% | 28.7% |
| Marya Yates Elementary School Matteson | 284 | 66.2% | 19.9% |
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 South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #1,177 of 1,925 | #357 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #1,498 of 2,077 ▼ 99 | #486 of 829 ▼ 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #1,286 of 2,077 ▲ 330 | #431 of 829 ▲ 168 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 224 | #1,955 of 2,419 | #793 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #66 of 2,035 | #42 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.5% | #1,918 of 2,042 | #741 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.4% | #908 of 2,132 | #515 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -43.7% | #33 of 1,461 | #20 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
224
-33 (-13%) vs 2020
+11% since 2010-11, when it was 201
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 | 224 | 24 | 9.3:1 | 63% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 239 | 25.5 | 9.4:1 | 76% (181) |
| 2022-23 | 248 | 25 | 9.9:1 | 72% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 257 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 398 | 26 | 15.3:1 | 89% (354) |
| 2015-16 | 486 | 30 | 16.2:1 | 87% (423) |
| 2010-11 | 201 | 4 | 50.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 44% (398 to 224); teachers down 8% (26 to 24).
About South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School is an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, according to federal school records. The latest federal count shows 224 students in pre-K through 8. Against the 381-student average for elementary schools in Illinois, enrollment here is 41% lower.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students in 622 schools, including South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School.
About 96% of the student body at South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School is Black. Other reported shares: 4% Hispanic. That compares with about 22% Black among all Cook County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 9% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 9.3:1, with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Lunch subsidy eligibility at South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School is 63%.
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 32% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 32.5% and a predicted 34.9%.
In the county around the school, Cook County, the median household income is $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County is home to 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 public school students.
The next-closest public school is Parkside Elementary Community Academy, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School is ahead of the 19.3% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
NCES assigns South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 33 students since 2020-21, to 224.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- Parkside Elementary Community Academy0.4 mi · 283
- Woodlawn Elementary Community School0.5 mi · 167
- Madison Elementary School0.5 mi · 224
- Revere Elementary School0.5 mi · 184
- Art in Motion Charter School0.6 mi · 602
- Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep0.7 mi · 1,007
Frequently asked questions
About South Shore Fine Arts Elementary SchoolHow large is South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School?
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School enrolls approximately 224 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School serve?
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School is approximately 9.3:1 (24 FTE teachers).
How diverse is South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School?
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School reports a student body of 4% Hispanic, 96% Black.
Who oversees South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School?
South Shore Fine Arts Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
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