Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch

Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch is one of the moderately sized primary schools in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 427 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch shows that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 14% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 14.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Moving Everest Charter School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 13.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 554 students in 2018 compared to 427 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 96% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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