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Enrollment
427
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001101
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School
214 N Lavergne Ave, Chicago, IL 60644 · (773) 534-6150 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL427 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
424 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
4
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 | 45 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 42 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 15% smaller than its 8th grade class (46).
Student demographics
29%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
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School→Marshall Metropolitan 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
24.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +15.9pp since 2023
Math
13.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.6% | 13.1% |
| 2023-24 | 8.7% | 7.1% |
% 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
16.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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 Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School's state test result (16.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School this school | 427 | 99.3% | 16.6% |
| Haley Elementary Academy Chicago | 458 | 98.0% | 18.6% |
| Herzl Elementary School Chicago | 429 | 97.2% | 4.0% |
| Barack H Obama Learning Academy Markham | 466 | 99.6% | 10.4% |
| Jesse C White Learning Academy Hazel Crest | 425 | 98.6% | 15.5% |
| Curtis Elementary School Chicago | 356 | 97.5% | 9.4% |
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 Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.6% | #1,714 of 1,925 | #636 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #1,793 of 2,077 ▼ 34 | #642 of 829 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #1,818 of 2,077 ▲ 147 | #701 of 829 ▲ 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 427 | #862 of 2,419 | #382 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #679 of 2,035 | #319 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.6% | #1,428 of 2,042 | #530 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #38 of 2,132 | #25 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.9% | #352 of 1,461 | #219 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
427
-26 (-6%) vs 2020
-62% since 1990-91, when it was 1,127
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 | 427 | 34.5 | 12.4:1 | 99% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 389 | 31 | 12.6:1 | 99% (384) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 33 | 11.8:1 | 83% (326) |
| 2020-21 | 453 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 554 | 35.4 | 15.6:1 | 99% (550) |
| 2015-16 | 761 | 43 | 17.7:1 | 98% (747) |
| 2010-11 | 782 | 41 | 19.1:1 | 100% (779) |
| 2000-01 | 1,309 | 59 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,127 | 48 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (554 to 427); teachers down 3% (35.4 to 34.5).
About Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, (ZIP code 60644). The school has 427 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 8.
Federal data list 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 324,396 students enrolled.
Roughly 83% of students at Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School are Black. The remaining students are 14% Hispanic. Among people living in Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School scores 29%.
Its staff includes 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.4 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is higher. Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 99%. The average for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Illinois schools: 16.6% actual against 14.2% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Cook County show that median household income comes to 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. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
Moving Everest Charter School is the nearest public school to Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 16.6% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 427, compared with 453 in 2020-21.
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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
- Moving Everest Charter School0.4 mi · 755
- KIPP Academy Chicago Campus0.5 mi · 649
- Nash Elementary School0.5 mi · 255
- YCCS-Scholastic Achievement High School0.5 mi · 117
- Austin College and Career Academy High School0.6 mi · 190
- Howe Elementary School0.8 mi · 341
Frequently asked questions
About Spencer Technology Academy Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School?
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School enrolls approximately 427 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School serve?
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School is approximately 12.4:1 (35 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School?
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 14% Hispanic, 83% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School in?
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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