Stevenson Elem School

Stevenson Elem School operates as a substantial elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 1,206 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 217% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Stevenson Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Stevenson Elem School shows that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% Black, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Stevenson Elem School has 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 85% of students at Stevenson Elem 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Stevenson Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stevenson Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Durkin Park Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stevenson Elem School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stevenson Elem School has fell 4%, going from 1,259 students in 2018 to 1,206 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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