Audubon Elem School, Chicago IL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Audubon Elem School

Audubon Elementary School is a PreK-8 public school on the North Side of Chicago, serving a community that is predominantly white and multiethnic, with a substantial portion of Hispanic students and smaller populations of Asian students, students of color, and multiracial students. The school enrolls roughly a mid-sized population across ten grade levels, with the largest cohort in PreK, reflecting the school's early-childhood focus.

The school's academic performance is its clearest strength. In reading, it performs at the top quartile among schools in Cook County, with consistently strong results across most grades. In third grade, proficiency is high. Moving up the grades, fourth- and fifth-grade reading is solid, and sixth and seventh grades show particularly strong results. Eighth-grade reading is also strong. In math, the school shows a similar pattern, with very high performance in third grade, solid proficiency in fourth and fifth grades, and notably strong results in seventh grade. The school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile relative to other schools in Cook County. The one softer area is eighth-grade math, where proficiency drops to a lower level. A parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand whether additional support is offered for students who need it at that grade level. Science results, where available, show solid performance in eighth grade and moderate results in fifth grade.

The school's immediate neighborhood, on the North Side near Hoyne Avenue, sits within Chicago's broader environment of dense walkability, extensive public transit access via the CTA, and thriving mixed-use communities. Housing values in the 60618 zip code are moderate by Chicago standards, and rents are similarly measured. The area has good walkability and proximity to parks and schools, and the neighborhood is part of a city that has resumed population growth in recent years after a long decline.

CPS itself is undergoing structural and pedagogical shifts. A new fully elected school board is being implemented; the first elections occurred in late 2024, with all 21 seats to be elected in November 2026. The district has formally moved away from school-choice and selective-admissions policies toward a neighborhood-school model. School ratings have been replaced with new accountability dashboards that look beyond test scores. The district has also rolled out Skyline, a PreK-12 universal curriculum in English language arts, math, science, social science, world languages, and arts, which is available at no cost to all district-managed schools. These changes reshape the district's priorities and how families evaluate schools, and they are worth tracking if you are considering Audubon for your child.

The school's enrollment data and civil rights reporting do not include free-or-reduced-price lunch rates or counts of students with IEPs and English learners, so a parent should ask the school directly about the composition of students receiving special education services, English language support, and economic need. State assessment results are reported; the data on suspension, discipline, attendance, staffing, and course offerings were not available in the records reviewed here, and a parent may want to contact the school to understand these dimensions of school life.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 386%

School 86% · District 38% · ▲ 48 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

Grade 478%

School 78% · District 29% · ▲ 49 pts above district

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 50 pts above county median

Grade 582%

School 82% · District 24% · ▲ 58 pts above district

▲ 52 pts above state median · ▲ 61 pts above county median

Grade 677%

School 77% · District 23% · ▲ 54 pts above district

▲ 53 pts above state median · ▲ 60 pts above county median

Grade 787%

School 87% · District 27% · ▲ 59 pts above district

▲ 58 pts above state median · ▲ 65 pts above county median

Grade 852%

School 52% · District 23% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 380%

School 80% · District 36% · ▲ 44 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 43 pts above county median

Grade 484%

School 84% · District 39% · ▲ 46 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 44 pts above county median

Grade 585%

School 85% · District 43% · ▲ 42 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 39 pts above county median

Grade 691%

School 91% · District 45% · ▲ 46 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 48 pts above county median

Grade 791%

School 91% · District 46% · ▲ 45 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

Grade 892%

School 92% · District 48% · ▲ 44 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 46 pts above county median

Science

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 29% · ▲ 38 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 876%

School 76% · District 31% · ▲ 44 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 49 pts above county median

This schoolChicago Public Schools Dist 299, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income25%Higher-income59%34 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income8%Higher-income48%39 pp gap