Haugan Elem School, Chicago IL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Haugan Elem School

Haugan Elementary School serves pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, located on the city's North Side. The school enrolls a substantial student body, drawn from a neighborhood that is predominantly Latino, with smaller populations of Asian, white, Black, and multiracial students. The enrollment spans all grade levels from early childhood through middle school, creating a long vertical structure with early learners and adolescents on the same campus.

The school's academic performance, based on the most recent state assessments, reflects significant challenges in both English language arts and mathematics. In math, proficiency rates across the tested grades range from roughly one-tenth to one-quarter, with the lowest performance in sixth grade and more moderate results in seventh and eighth. English language arts shows slightly more variation; sixth and eighth grades perform better in reading than in math, while grades three and four lag more noticeably. In science, fifth grade shows proficiency rates around one-eighth, and eighth grade around one-quarter. Overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places the school in the bottom quartile among the school districts in Cook County. The state assessment changed its scoring rubric this year, so year-to-year trend data is not available. Test participation is very high across all grades and subjects, indicating strong assessment attendance but not strong proficiency attainment.

The school operates within Chicago Public Schools District 299, which is undergoing substantive policy shifts. The district has moved toward a fully elected school board, with elections ongoing; adopted a strategic plan centered on strengthening neighborhood schools rather than school choice; and replaced numeric school ratings with holistic accountability dashboards. The district has also introduced Skyline, a universal PreK-12 curriculum available to all schools, standardizing instructional materials across campuses that previously selected their own materials. Families considering Haugan should note that the district is in a period of governance change and accountability transition.

The school sits in Chicago's North Side within a walkable urban neighborhood. The city's real estate market, tracked at the local zip code level, shows moderate home values and rents, with year-over-year appreciation in both. Housing supply in Cook County is stable, though demand is modest. The neighborhood supports street life through dense commercial corridors and excellent public transit via the CTA; Chicago has one of the nation's most extensive transit networks and is among the most walkable major U.S. cities. Schools and parks are typically embedded within neighborhood blocks here rather than set apart on isolated campuses.

A parent evaluating this school should take its performance data as a real consideration. The proficiency rates are notably low across subjects and grades, meaning only a small share of students are meeting grade-level standards on state tests. A parent may want to look into further detail with the school about the composition of its student body, including the share of English learners and students in special education, which affect how to read those results in context. The school's strengths and weaknesses beyond testing, its instructional approach, and its family and community engagement are not visible in this data. What is clear is that this is a neighborhood school serving a predominantly Latino population in an urban setting with strong transit and walkability, operating under a district in transition toward elected governance and renewed focus on neighborhood options.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 324%

School 24% · District 38% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 416%

School 16% · District 29% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 24% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 610%

School 10% · District 23% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 724%

School 24% · District 27% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 23% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 319%

School 19% · District 36% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 418%

School 18% · District 39% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 43% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 627%

School 27% · District 45% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 721%

School 21% · District 46% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 48% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Science

Grade 513%

School 13% · District 29% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 823%

School 23% · District 31% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below 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.