Spry Elem Community School

Located at 2400 S Marshall Blvd, in Chicago, Illinois, Spry Elem Community School is a small elementary school that teaches 317 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Spry Elem Community School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Spry Elem Community School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Spry Elem Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spry Elem Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 14.8%, a residual of -11.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Spry Elem Community School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Spry Community Links High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spry Elem Community School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 17.8%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spry Elem Community School has fell 42%, going from 546 students in 2018 to 317 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.