Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad

Located at 4320 W 5th Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad is a modestly sized elementary school that enrolls 203 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 47% below the state mean of about 381.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.0%; this one delivers 35.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that median household income runs about $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad is one.

Webster Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad. On composite proficiency, Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 13.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sumner Elem Math & Sci Comm Acad has decreased 26%, going from 276 students in 2018 to 203 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 99% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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