Enrollment
298
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001163
Woodson South Elementary School
4414 S Evans Ave, Chicago, IL 60653 · (773) 535-1280 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.6:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
211 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 | 14 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 17 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 23 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 23 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (17) is 65% smaller than its 8th grade class (48).
Student demographics
16%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
Woodson South Elementary School→Walter Henri Dyett HS for Arts
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
24.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.1pp since 2023
Math
5.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.4% | 5.2% |
| 2023-24 | 13.3% | 2.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 31% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Woodson South Elementary School
Woodson South Elementary School's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodson South Elementary School this school | 298 | 70.8% | 13.9% |
| Carter Elementary School Chicago | 279 | 70.6% | 12.6% |
| Green W Elementary School Chicago | 267 | 72.3% | 24.8% |
| Neil Armstrong Elementary School Richton Park | 266 | 69.9% | 26.5% |
| Mays Elementary Academy Chicago | 277 | 67.9% | 9.9% |
| Woodgate Elementary School Matteson | 260 | 72.7% | 33.7% |
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 Woodson South Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #1,785 of 1,925 | #683 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.2% | #2,027 of 2,077 ▼ 27 | #794 of 829 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #1,823 of 2,077 ▲ 1 | #706 of 829 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #1,547 of 2,419 | #640 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #1,081 of 2,035 | #488 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.3% | #1,726 of 2,042 | #655 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.8% | #719 of 2,132 | #452 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #928 of 1,461 | #468 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
298
+17 (+6%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 550
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 | 298 | 22 | 13.6:1 | 71% (211) |
| 2023-24 | 298 | 25 | 11.9:1 | 86% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 294 | 19.5 | 15.1:1 | 82% (242) |
| 2020-21 | 281 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 330 | 22 | 15.0:1 | 98% (323) |
| 2015-16 | 386 | 19 | 20.3:1 | 97% (373) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 23 | 17.4:1 | 99% (396) |
| 2000-01 | 496 | 27 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 550 | 32 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodson South Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (330 to 298); teachers unchanged (22 to 22).
About Woodson South Elementary School
Woodson South Elementary School is an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, according to federal school records. It enrolls 298 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 8. The school is 22% below the average for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students in 622 schools, including Woodson South Elementary School.
The share of Black students at Woodson South Elementary School is 91%. Other groups make up 6% Hispanic. Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Woodson South Elementary School scores 16%.
Its staff includes 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.6 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Woodson South Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 71%.
Woodson South Elementary School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 2% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Woodson South Elementary School scores 16.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 13.9% actual versus 30.6% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Cook County show that the median household earns about $83,498 a year, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Woodson South Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, King College Prep High School is about 0.3 miles from Woodson South Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Woodson South Elementary School is behind the 19.5% nearby average, ranking 6th of 8.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school grew from 281 students in 2020-21 to 298 in 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
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- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
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- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Nearby schools
- King College Prep High School0.3 mi · 819
- James Farmer Jr. Elementary0.3 mi · 321
- Mollison Elementary School0.4 mi · 237
- Robinson Elementary School0.6 mi · 117
- Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood0.6 mi · 304
- Ariel Elementary Community Academy0.6 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Woodson South Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Woodson South Elementary School?
Woodson South Elementary School enrolls approximately 298 students in grades PK-08.
Is Woodson South Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Woodson South Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Woodson South Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woodson South Elementary School is approximately 13.6:1 (22 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Woodson South Elementary School?
Woodson South Elementary School reports a student body of 6% Hispanic, 91% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Woodson South Elementary School in?
Woodson South Elementary School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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