1
Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001150
Wentworth Elementary School
1340 W 71st St, Chicago, IL 60636 · (773) 535-3394 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
422 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 | 56 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 39 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 36 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 38 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 5% larger than its 8th grade class (38).
Student demographics
38%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
Wentworth Elementary School→Englewood STEM 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
14.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.5pp since 2023
Math
4.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 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 have held steady.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.4% | 4.6% |
| 2023-24 | 5.9% | 3.9% |
% 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
10.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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 Wentworth Elementary School
Wentworth Elementary School's state test result (10.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wentworth Elementary School this school | 433 | 97.5% | 10.1% |
| Sullivan Elementary School Chicago | 439 | 96.1% | 14.6% |
| Barack H Obama Learning Academy Markham | 466 | 99.6% | 10.4% |
| Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elementary School Chicago | 452 | 94.0% | 8.6% |
| Young Elementary School Chicago | 417 | 96.2% | 15.6% |
| Ashe Elementary School Chicago | 387 | 94.6% | 13.0% |
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 Wentworth Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.1% | #1,877 of 1,925 | #734 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 4.6% | #2,039 of 2,077 ▼ 119 | #803 of 829 ▼ 72 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.4% | #2,017 of 2,077 ▲ 18 | #809 of 829 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #828 of 2,419 | #373 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #447 of 2,035 | #241 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.8% | #1,212 of 2,042 | #452 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.5% | #83 of 2,132 | #59 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #1,275 of 1,461 | #588 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
433
+79 (+22%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 905
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 | 433 | 37 | 11.7:1 | 97% (422) |
| 2023-24 | 388 | 35 | 11.1:1 | 98% (382) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 30.5 | 13.3:1 | 97% (395) |
| 2020-21 | 354 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 27.7 | 16.2:1 | 99% (444) |
| 2015-16 | 543 | 35 | 15.5:1 | 100% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 364 | 17 | 21.4:1 | 99% (360) |
| 2000-01 | 737 | 35 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 905 | 41 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wentworth Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (449 to 433); teachers up 34% (27.7 to 37).
About Wentworth Elementary School
Wentworth Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It had 433 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 8.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 oversees Wentworth Elementary School and 621 other schools, with 324,396 students in total.
More than half of the students at Wentworth Elementary School are Black (75%). The remaining shares are 24% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Cook County's population at about 22%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wentworth Elementary School scores 38%.
Teacher count: 37 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.7:1. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 2.2 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 97%. Among public schools in Cook County, the average eligibility rate is 66%.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Wentworth Elementary School's results are 5.1 points below predicted: 10.1% against 15.2%.
Cook County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Wentworth Elementary School among them.
About 0.3 miles separate Wentworth Elementary School from the closest public school, Bond Elementary School. The five-mile area around Wentworth Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Wentworth Elementary School at 6th of 9.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 354 to 433, a 22% increase.
The Wentworth Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Wentworth Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Wentworth Elementary. Wentworth Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Wentworth ElementaryReidsville, NC · 497 students
- Wentworth Elementary SchoolWentworth, NH · 78 students
Nearby schools
- Bond Elementary School0.3 mi · 233
- Montessori of Englewood Chtr Elementary School0.5 mi · 349
- Davis M Magnet Elementary School0.6 mi · 120
- Stagg Elementary School0.6 mi · 377
- Bass Elementary School0.7 mi · 313
- Providence-Englewood Elementary Charter0.7 mi · 428
Frequently asked questions
About Wentworth Elementary SchoolHow large is Wentworth Elementary School?
Wentworth Elementary School enrolls approximately 433 students in grades PK-08.
Is Wentworth Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wentworth Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Wentworth Elementary School have?
Wentworth Elementary School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wentworth Elementary School?
At Wentworth Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 24% Hispanic, 75% Black.
What district is Wentworth Elementary School in?
Wentworth Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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