Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl

Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, serveing 423 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl lists that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.4%; Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl posts 30.1%, -16.3 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. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl is one campus in the mix.

Noble St Chtr-Chicago Bulls Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Suder Montessori Elem Magnet Schl ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 23.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 414 students in 2018 compared to 423 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 56% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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