The top reported proficiency rate is 62% in English language arts. The lowest is 23% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Everett Elem School
Everett Elementary serves a small student body of just under one hundred in Chicago's 60608 zip code on the South Side. It is part of Chicago Public Schools District 299, a system undergoing significant structural change around governance, curriculum, and school ratings.
The school's enrollment is heavily concentrated in early grades, with just a few students in fourth and fifth grade and only a handful in sixth. The vast majority of students are Hispanic, with much smaller populations of Asian, white, and multiracial students. Data on free and reduced lunch rates and English learner populations was not available. The school sits in a neighborhood where median home values and rents have been rising, though housing data reflects the broader Cook County market rather than the immediate school zone.
In reading and language arts, third-grade students show proficiency at a meaningful level on the state IAR assessment. Mathematics proficiency in third grade was substantially lower. State testing results for grades four through eight were either not reported or suppressed, likely reflecting very small numbers of students in those grades or the grades being below or above the tested range. Science results for grade five were not available. The school shows full participation on all reported assessments. Because the school serves only through fifth grade with very small cohorts at the upper end, state-tested grades begin in third, and results in grades four through eight are sparse or absent. Among schools in Cook County that report proficiency data across tested subjects and grades, Everett's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint of the county distribution.
The school was not designated as a Title I school in the data provided, though this may reflect missing information rather than ineligibility. A graduation rate does not apply because the school serves only through early elementary grades. Information on special education enrollment, discipline, attendance, staffing, or course offerings was not available.
Chicago Public Schools has recently shifted governance toward an elected board (with the first full election of all twenty-one seats coming in 2026), adopted a district-wide PreK-12 curriculum called Skyline, and replaced numeric school ratings with new holistic accountability dashboards. The district has also signaled a policy turn toward neighborhood schools, though without abandoning selective enrollment or charter schools. For families at Everett, this context means the school sits within a district actively reshaping how it allocates resources and how it measures and communicates school performance.
A parent may want to look into the school directly about class sizes, peer composition across classrooms, early literacy and numeracy supports (given the gap between ELA and math proficiency), and what the transition from single-number ratings to new dashboards means in practice for understanding school performance in their neighborhood.
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