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Enrollment
558
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001109
Stowe Elementary School
3444 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60647 · (773) 534-4175 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL558 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
487 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 62 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 14% larger than its 8th grade class (49).
Student demographics
22%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
Stowe Elementary School→North-Grand 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
22.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.2pp since 2023
Math
12.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 22 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.4% | 12.9% |
| 2023-24 | 11.2% | 4.2% |
% 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
15.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Stowe Elementary School
Stowe Elementary School's state test result (15.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stowe Elementary School this school | 558 | 87.3% | 15.0% |
| CICS - West Belden Campus Chicago | 520 | 87.3% | 25.0% |
| Mozart Elementary School Chicago | 499 | 88.6% | 21.8% |
| Davis N Elementary School Chicago | 540 | 87.6% | 10.6% |
| LEARN John Kathy Schreiber Chrtr Waukegan | 519 | 83.8% | 45.6% |
| Barry Elementary School Chicago | 473 | 87.7% | 22.0% |
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 Stowe Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #1,753 of 1,925 | #657 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.9% | #1,801 of 2,077 ▲ 103 | #650 of 829 ▲ 70 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #1,870 of 2,077 ▲ 26 | #731 of 829 ▲ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 558 | #360 of 2,419 | #190 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #367 of 2,035 | #197 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.4% | #1,554 of 2,042 | #584 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.3% | #354 of 2,132 | #252 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.2% | #564 of 1,461 | #319 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
558
-32 (-5%) vs 2020
-63% since 1990-91, when it was 1,494
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 | 558 | 49 | 11.4:1 | 87% (487) |
| 2023-24 | 509 | 42.5 | 12.0:1 | 94% (476) |
| 2022-23 | 557 | 41.5 | 13.4:1 | 90% (504) |
| 2020-21 | 590 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 30.6 | 22.0:1 | 96% (645) |
| 2015-16 | 733 | 42 | 17.4:1 | 99% (724) |
| 2010-11 | 925 | 47 | 19.7:1 | 100% (922) |
| 2000-01 | 1,556 | 75 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,494 | 71 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stowe Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (674 to 558); teachers up 60% (30.6 to 49).
About Stowe Elementary School
Stowe Elementary School, located in Chicago, Illinois, is a medium-sized elementary school. It serves 558 students in pre-K through 8. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
The 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enroll 324,396 students altogether, Stowe Elementary School among them.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Stowe Elementary School, with 88% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 8% Black and 3% White. Among people living in Cook County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. The chance that two students picked at random at Stowe Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 22%.
A ratio of 11.4:1 comes from the school's 49 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 87% of students at Stowe Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 21 points.
Stowe Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 15.0% and a predicted 21.1%.
Federal survey data for Cook County show that median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stowe Elementary School is among the 1,406 public schools in Cook County.
Of nearby public schools, Funston Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.4 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Stowe Elementary School comes in 9th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Stowe Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Stowe Elementary School went from 590 students to 558.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
Other Stowe Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Stowe Elementary. Stowe Elementary School is the largest of the 5.
- Stowe Elementary SchoolStowe, VT · 379 students
- Stowe Elementary SchoolStowe, VT · 347 students
- Stowe Elementary SchoolDes Moines, IA · 297 students
- STOWE ELEMENTARYDULUTH, MN · 245 students
Nearby schools
- Funston Elementary School0.4 mi · 440
- Lowell Elementary School0.4 mi · 311
- Marine Leadership Academy - Ames0.5 mi · 549
- McAuliffe Elementary School0.6 mi · 523
- Casals Elementary School0.6 mi · 337
- Cameron Elementary School0.6 mi · 671
Frequently asked questions
About Stowe Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Stowe Elementary School?
Stowe Elementary School enrolls approximately 558 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Stowe Elementary School serve?
Stowe Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Stowe Elementary School?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at Stowe Elementary School.
How diverse is Stowe Elementary School?
Stowe Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 88% Hispanic, 8% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Stowe Elementary School public or private?
Stowe Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.