Enrollment
337
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001120
Taylor Elementary School
9912 S Avenue H, Chicago, IL 60617 · (773) 535-6240 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL337 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
297 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 27 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 33 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 31 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 43 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 28% smaller than its 8th grade class (43).
Student demographics
26%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
Taylor Elementary School→Washington G 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
25.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
15.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.8% | 15.9% |
| 2023-24 | 18.7% | 11.8% |
% 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
20.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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 Taylor Elementary School
Taylor Elementary School's state test result (20.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Elementary School this school | 337 | 88.1% | 20.2% |
| Pickard Elementary School Chicago | 319 | 90.6% | 39.8% |
| Komensky Elementary School Berwyn | 320 | 85.6% | 29.9% |
| Talman Elementary School Chicago | 332 | 89.8% | 39.2% |
| Lara Elementary Academy Chicago | 362 | 91.4% | 20.8% |
| Perez Elementary School Chicago | 291 | 84.2% | 33.7% |
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 Taylor Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #1,598 of 1,925 | #561 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #1,712 of 2,077 ▼ 169 | #594 of 829 ▼ 81 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #1,785 of 2,077 ▼ 161 | #683 of 829 ▼ 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 337 | #1,330 of 2,419 | #552 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #311 of 2,035 | #172 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.5% | #1,486 of 2,042 | #552 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.1% | #331 of 2,132 | #238 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #267 of 1,461 | #172 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
337
-31 (-8%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 657
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 | 337 | 30.3 | 11.1:1 | 88% (297) |
| 2023-24 | 325 | 28.5 | 11.4:1 | 90% (291) |
| 2022-23 | 337 | 30.5 | 11.1:1 | 93% (313) |
| 2020-21 | 368 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 453 | 25.4 | 17.8:1 | 97% (440) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 26 | 18.4:1 | 99% (472) |
| 2010-11 | 649 | 33 | 19.7:1 | 100% (646) |
| 2000-01 | 792 | 43 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 657 | 32 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Taylor Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (453 to 337); teachers up 19% (25.4 to 30.3).
About Taylor Elementary School
Taylor Elementary School is a public elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The school enrolls 337 students, from pre-K through 8.
The district, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, operates 622 schools serving 324,396 students.
Hispanic students make up 86% of enrollment at Taylor Elementary School. Smaller groups are 8% Black and 6% White. For comparison, the population of Cook County is roughly 27% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 26%, meaning two students picked at random have a 26% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Taylor Elementary School's 30.3 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.1:1. On average, elementary schools in Illinois have 13.9:1, compared with 11.1:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 88%. That is 22 points above the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Taylor Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 20.2% and a predicted 20.6%.
Cook County has about 5,182,090 residents, and the median household income is $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Taylor Elementary School, Cook County has 1,405 other public schools.
The closest public school to Taylor Elementary School is Gallistel Elementary Language Academy, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Taylor Elementary School is behind the 23.3% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
NCES assigns Taylor Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Taylor Elementary School's enrollment declined from 368 in 2020-21 to 337 in 2024-25.
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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 Taylor Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 13 states are named Taylor Elementary. Taylor Elementary School is the 14th largest of the 18.
- Taylor Elementary SchoolLawrenceville, GA · 883 students
- Taylor Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 797 students
- Taylor Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 744 students
- Taylor Elementary SchoolABILENE, TX · 662 students
- Taylor ElementaryArlington, VA · 530 students
Nearby schools
- Gallistel Elementary Language Academy0.6 mi · 597
- Sadlowski Elementary School0.8 mi · 655
- Marsh Elementary School1.0 mi · 616
- Addams Elementary School1.2 mi · 544
- LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus1.4 mi · 390
- Thorp J N Elementary School1.4 mi · 296
Frequently asked questions
About Taylor Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Taylor Elementary School?
Taylor Elementary School enrolls approximately 337 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Taylor Elementary School serve?
Taylor Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Taylor Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Taylor Elementary School is approximately 11.1:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Taylor Elementary School?
Student demographics at Taylor Elementary School are roughly 6% White, 86% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Taylor Elementary School?
Taylor Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 in Cook County.
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