Warren Elem School

Warren Elem School is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, instructing 317 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Warren Elem School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Warren Elem School records that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Warren Elem School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Warren Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% 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 noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Warren Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Warren Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Black Magnet Elem School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Warren Elem School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 27.9%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 35%: 234 students in 2018 compared to 317 in 2025.

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