Kellogg Elem School, Chicago IL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Kellogg Elem School

Kellogg Elementary School serves kindergarten through eighth grade in Chicago's South Side, a K-8 configuration that places it between early childhood and the first academic transition point of high school. The school enrolls a small student body drawn almost entirely from its neighborhood, with the student population predominantly African American and the remainder split between white, Hispanic, and Asian students. Detailed data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility and special education or English learner enrollment are not publicly available for this school, so a parent interested in those demographics would need to contact the school directly.

On the state's latest assessment results, Kellogg shows a meaningful contrast between its elementary and middle grades. In early elementary, third-grade students show strength in English language arts, while math proficiency is also solid. By fourth grade, that strength begins to narrow, with ELA remaining above half and math dropping notably. The pattern intensifies in the middle grades: sixth-graders achieve roughly half proficiency in ELA and well below that in math, while seventh and eighth graders recover somewhat in ELA but remain below fifty percent in math. Science results, reported only for fifth and eighth grade, sit in the low-to-mid range. Across all tested grades, participation rates are very high, indicating the school is successfully bringing its students to the test.

This trajectory suggests that Kellogg's students enter with reasonable academic footing in third grade, especially in reading, but encounter growing difficulty in math from fourth grade onward, and that middle grades remain an area of measurable challenge. A parent interested in the school's approaches to supporting students through that transition, or in what math and science support looks like in practice, would benefit from conversations with school leadership. The district recently launched a comprehensive PreK-12 curriculum called Skyline across all its subjects; how Kellogg is implementing it and whether customizations exist for students who fall behind are questions worth asking.

Kellogg sits within Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest district, which has undergone significant governance and policy shifts. A newly elected school board (first 10 members elected in 2024, with all 21 to be elected in 2026) signals direct parent input on district leadership. More substantively, the district adopted a five-year strategic plan in 2024 that prioritizes neighborhood schools, moving away from the school-choice emphasis of decades past. That shift affects how resources flow and which students are most likely to attend their assigned neighborhood school versus seek placement elsewhere. For a school like Kellogg, it means the district is leaning toward its success as a neighborhood anchor rather than competing for families who might have looked beyond their zone.

Chicago itself is a large, dense, walkable city with 24/7 transit and strong civic infrastructure: more than one thousand parks, 26 miles of lakefront, and libraries throughout. After years of population loss, the city has grown twice in a row and is approving substantial new housing, though most recent construction has concentrated downtown and on the North Lakefront rather than on the South Side. Housing values in the school's zipcode are moderate relative to national benchmarks and have appreciated modestly. Rents have risen sharply, and the median rental cost as a proportion of household income sits above a quarter of income, a level families should factor into their housing decisions in the area.

Kellogg's testing position within Cook County districts sits above the midpoint on overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. That placement reflects respectable early-elementary performance offset by middle-grade challenges. The school has no graduation rate because it serves only through eighth grade, no attendance or chronic absenteeism data in the public record, and no special-populations enrollment counts available. A parent considering Kellogg would want to ask the school directly about how it supports students who lag in math, what tutoring or intervention options exist, what the transition to ninth grade looks like, and which high schools receive the most Kellogg graduates. The neighborhood-school priority now embedded in district strategy suggests Kellogg will play a larger role in CPS's own success, making the school's trajectory a matter the district will increasingly focus on.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 373%

School 73% · District 38% · ▲ 35 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 29% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 24% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 623%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 733%

School 33% · District 27% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 23% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 384%

School 84% · District 36% · ▲ 48 pts above district

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

Grade 473%

School 73% · District 39% · ▲ 35 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 43% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 652%

School 52% · District 45% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 767%

School 67% · District 46% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 872%

School 72% · District 48% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Science

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 29% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 31% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 19 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 3Lower-income53%Higher-income38%16 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income47%Higher-income50%3 pp gap