Westcott Elem School

Westcott Elem School is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 387 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Westcott Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westcott Elem School reports that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Westcott Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Westcott Elem School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.2%; actual is 12.8%, a gap of -14.4 points.

In the broader community, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Westcott Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Simeon Career Academy High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westcott Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westcott Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 21.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Westcott Elem School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 387). Black enrollment moved from 98% to 93% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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