Twain Elem School

Twain Elem School operates as a high-enrollment elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 850 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Twain Elem School sits 123% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Twain Elem School shows that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% White, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Twain Elem School records 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Twain Elem School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 28.4%; this one delivers 43.3%, a residual of +14.8 points.

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 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 Twain Elem School is one.

Charles J Sahs Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Twain Elem School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 1,133 students in 2018 compared to 850 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 14% to 7% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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