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Enrollment
487
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000964
Talcott Elementary School
1840 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60622 · (773) 534-7130 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL487 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
347 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 | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 47 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 43 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 30% larger than its 8th grade class (43).
Student demographics
30%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
Talcott Elementary School→Wells Community Academy 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
33.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.5pp since 2023
Math
24.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.8% | 24.5% |
| 2023-24 | 24.3% | 14.4% |
% 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
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Talcott Elementary School
Talcott Elementary School's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talcott Elementary School this school | 487 | 71.3% | 25.9% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School Elgin | 509 | 68.0% | 26.8% |
| Darwin Elementary School Chicago | 502 | 74.9% | 29.5% |
| Edna Rollins Elementary School Aurora | 508 | 69.5% | 14.8% |
| CICS - Irving Park Campus Chicago | 453 | 68.0% | 38.9% |
| Karel Havlicek Elementary School Berwyn | 490 | 75.7% | 36.4% |
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 Talcott Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #1,417 of 1,925 | #466 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #1,476 of 2,077 ▼ 54 | #473 of 829 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #1,558 of 2,077 ▼ 157 | #560 of 829 ▼ 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 487 | #598 of 2,419 | #290 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #1,135 of 2,035 | #507 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.7% | #1,404 of 2,042 | #522 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.3% | #708 of 2,132 | #445 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #1,306 of 1,461 | #599 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
487
+83 (+21%) vs 2020
-56% since 1990-91, when it was 1,098
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 | 487 | 35.5 | 13.7:1 | 71% (347) |
| 2023-24 | 465 | 34.5 | 13.5:1 | 73% (339) |
| 2022-23 | 437 | 36.5 | 12.0:1 | 72% (314) |
| 2020-21 | 404 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 502 | 32.1 | 15.7:1 | 80% (404) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 31 | 17.3:1 | 82% (442) |
| 2010-11 | 554 | 30 | 18.5:1 | 80% (441) |
| 2000-01 | 728 | 50 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,098 | 68 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Talcott Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (502 to 487); teachers up 11% (32.1 to 35.5).
About Talcott Elementary School
Talcott Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It serves 487 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, Talcott Elementary School among them.
Talcott Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 83% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 9% White, 4% Black, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Cook County's population at about 27%. The chance that two students picked at random at Talcott Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 30%.
With 35.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Talcott Elementary School was 13.7:1. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 13.9:1, a similar figure. Talcott Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 71%.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Talcott Elementary School, the prediction is 30.4% and the result is 25.9%.
Federal survey data for Cook County show that median household income is about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. A total of 1,406 public schools operate in Cook County, serving about 697,934 students.
Nearest public school: Mitchell Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. The five-mile area around Talcott Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Talcott Elementary School at 5th of 9.
NCES assigns Talcott Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 21%, from 404 to 487.
Conversations here can range across sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. 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 Talcott Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Talcott Elementary. Talcott Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Talcott Elementary SchoolTalcott, WV · 160 students
Nearby schools
- Mitchell Elementary School0.5 mi · 446
- Otis Elementary School0.5 mi · 356
- Wells Community Academy High School0.5 mi · 398
- Noble St Chtr-Golder College Prep0.5 mi · 633
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Elementary0.6 mi · 260
- Suder Montessori Elementary Magnet Schl0.7 mi · 423
Frequently asked questions
About Talcott Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Talcott Elementary School?
Talcott Elementary School enrolls approximately 487 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Talcott Elementary School serve?
Talcott Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Talcott Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Talcott Elementary School is approximately 13.7:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Talcott Elementary School?
At Talcott Elementary School, the student body is approximately 9% White, 83% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Talcott Elementary School in?
Talcott Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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