Enrollment
304
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006466
Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood
1119 E 46th St, Chicago, IL 60653 · (773) 536-2399 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL304 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
236 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
14%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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
41.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.2pp since 2023
Math
34.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +16.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.4% | 34.9% |
| 2023-24 | 28.2% | 18.1% |
% 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
35.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood
Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood's state test result (35.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood this school | 304 | 77.6% | 35.5% |
| Oglesby Elementary School Chicago | 293 | 76.5% | 13.9% |
| Fort Dearborn Elementary School Chicago | 298 | 75.5% | 16.0% |
| Gillespie Elementary School Chicago | 288 | 79.9% | 18.2% |
| Bennett Elementary School Chicago | 312 | 80.4% | 23.0% |
| Smyth J Elementary School Chicago | 348 | 80.5% | 7.3% |
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 Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #1,075 of 1,925 | #310 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.9% | #1,118 of 2,077 ▲ 150 | #337 of 829 ▲ 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #1,302 of 2,077 ▼ 51 | #440 of 829 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 304 | #1,516 of 2,419 | #629 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #1,963 of 2,035 | #793 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.3% | #1,775 of 2,042 | #668 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.6% | #566 of 2,132 | #380 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #711 of 1,461 | #377 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
304
-20 (-6%) vs 2020
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 | 304 | 16 | 19.0:1 | 78% (236) |
| 2023-24 | 302 | 15 | 20.1:1 | 78% (236) |
| 2022-23 | 299 | 17.8 | 16.8:1 | 70% (210) |
| 2020-21 | 324 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 354 | N/A | N/A | 72% (256) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood.
About Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood
Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood is a small elementary school with its address in Chicago, Illinois. The school enrolls 304 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood along with 621 other schools, enrolling 324,396 students in total.
Roughly 92% of students at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood are Black. Other groups include 4% White and 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 22% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood scores 14%.
There are 16 full-time-equivalent teachers at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood, giving a ratio of 19.0:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. A total of 236 students, or 78%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood outscored 54%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood is 8.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (35.5% versus 26.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Illinois.
The county, Cook County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 1,406 public schools and about 697,934 students.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood from the closest public school, Ariel Elementary Community Academy. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood at 2nd of 8.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 324 (2020-21) to 304 (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
Nearby schools
- Ariel Elementary Community Academy0.0 mi · 364
- King College Prep High School0.3 mi · 819
- Robinson Elementary School0.4 mi · 117
- Shoesmith Elementary School0.5 mi · 294
- Woodson South Elementary School0.6 mi · 298
- Reavis Elementary Math & Sci Spec Schl0.6 mi · 356
Frequently asked questions
About Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth KenwoodWhat is the total enrollment at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood?
Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood enrolls approximately 304 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood serve?
Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood is approximately 19.0:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood?
Student demographics at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood are roughly 4% White, 2% Hispanic, 92% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood in?
Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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