Enrollment
221
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001159
Whittier Elementary School
1900 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60608 · (773) 535-4590 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL221 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
207 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 24 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 19 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 19 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 21 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 20 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 25% larger than its 8th grade class (20).
Student demographics
12%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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
16.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.4pp since 2023
Math
12.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.9% | 12.4% |
| 2023-24 | 8.5% | 3.3% |
% 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
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Whittier Elementary School
Whittier Elementary School's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whittier Elementary School this school | 221 | 93.7% | 13.9% |
| Pilsen Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 217 | 92.2% | 16.3% |
| DePue Elementary School DePue | 232 | 89.2% | 14.3% |
| Acero Chtr - Bartolome de las Chicago | 225 | 88.4% | 16.1% |
| Acero Chtr - Rufino Tamayo Elementary School Chicago | 266 | 90.6% | 38.4% |
| Acero Chtr - Esmera Santiago Cmps Chicago | 224 | 88.8% | 28.0% |
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 Whittier Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #1,791 of 1,925 | #687 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.4% | #1,815 of 2,077 ▲ 138 | #657 of 829 ▲ 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #1,981 of 2,077 ▼ 6 | #786 of 829 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 221 | #1,971 of 2,419 | #797 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #201 of 2,035 | #122 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.1% | #1,842 of 2,042 | #702 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.7% | #194 of 2,132 | #140 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #1,282 of 1,461 | #589 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
221
+35 (+19%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 467
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 | 221 | 21 | 10.5:1 | 94% (207) |
| 2023-24 | 175 | 21 | 8.3:1 | 88% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 166 | 21 | 7.9:1 | 83% (138) |
| 2020-21 | 186 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 229 | 13.9 | 16.5:1 | 97% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 19 | 15.2:1 | 98% (283) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 25 | 16.5:1 | 99% (410) |
| 2000-01 | 514 | 26 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 467 | 23 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whittier Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (229 to 221); teachers up 51% (13.9 to 21).
About Whittier Elementary School
Whittier Elementary School is a small elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. It is open to students in pre-K through 8 and enrolls 221 students. That is 42% below the average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 oversees Whittier Elementary School and 621 other schools, with 324,396 students in total.
A large majority of enrollment at Whittier Elementary School is Hispanic, at 94%. It is also 3% White. Cook County's residents are about 27% Hispanic, 67 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Whittier Elementary School scores 12%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.5:1. The school has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is 3.4 students per teacher. In all, 94% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 28 points above the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 17.4% for Whittier Elementary School. The school posts 13.9%, 3.6 points below the prediction.
In Cook County, home to about 5,182,090 people, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Whittier Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Ruiz Elementary School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Whittier Elementary School is behind the 23.1% nearby average, ranking 8th of 9.
Whittier Elementary School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 19%.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Whittier Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Whittier Elementary schools
34 other US public schools in 17 states are named Whittier Elementary. Whittier Elementary School is the 32nd largest of the 35.
- Whittier Elementary SchoolWaukegan, IL · 438 students
- Whittier Elementary SchoolWheaton, IL · 433 students
- Whittier Elementary SchoolOak Park, IL · 386 students
- Whittier Elementary SchoolDowners Grove, IL · 307 students
- Whittier Elementary SchoolHarvey, IL · 197 students
Nearby schools
- Ruiz Elementary School0.4 mi · 467
- Cooper Elementary Dual Language Academy0.5 mi · 428
- Juarez Community Academy High School0.5 mi · 1,585
- Orozco Elementary Fine Arts & Sciences0.5 mi · 280
- Pickard Elementary School0.5 mi · 319
- IJLA Charter High School0.6 mi · 95
Frequently asked questions
About Whittier Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Whittier Elementary School?
Whittier Elementary School enrolls approximately 221 students in grades PK-08.
Is Whittier Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Whittier Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Whittier Elementary School?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at Whittier Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Whittier Elementary School?
Student demographics at Whittier Elementary School are roughly 3% White, 94% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Whittier Elementary School in?
Whittier Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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