Sullivan Elem School

Located at 8331 S Mackinaw Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Sullivan Elem School is a moderately sized elementary school that works with 439 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Sullivan Elem School is among them.

On demographics, Sullivan Elem School shows that Black students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Sullivan Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sullivan Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.0%, the actual is 14.6%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Sullivan Elem School is one campus in the mix.

EPIC Academy High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sullivan Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 18.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sullivan Elem School's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 439). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Sullivan Elem School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.