Stagg Elem School

Stagg Elem School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 377 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Stagg Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stagg Elem School logs that 79% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 18% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stagg Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.8%; Stagg Elem School posts 12.0%, -18.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Stagg Elem School is one.

Oglesby Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Stagg Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 11.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 410 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 97% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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