Summary
Located in Chicago, Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy is a Chicago Public Schools PK–8 school serving 318 students, with nearby public and charter schools offering local comparisons. Its latest all-grades results show ELA proficiency close to the nearby-school average, but math results are much weaker: 14% of students were proficient, compared with 25% across five nearby schools with published results. Math is the school’s clearest academic concern.
ELA is a relative strength compared with nearby results, though it remains below district and state levels: 36% of students were proficient, nearly matching the nearby average of 36%, versus 46% in the district and 56% statewide. Grade-level results vary: fourth-grade ELA was 53%, above the district’s 43% and close to the state’s 56%, while eighth-grade ELA was 48%, below the district’s 56%, the state’s 63%, and every nearby eighth-grade result that was published. Science also varies by grade: fifth-grade proficiency was 39%, above the district’s 35%, while eighth-grade proficiency was 32%, 9 points below the district and 20 below the state.
Scores have risen from 2023–2024, but the gaps with the state have widened: ELA increased from 28% to 36% and math from 10% to 14%, while the state shortfalls grew by 7 points in ELA and 8 points in math. Ericson is ranked by SchoolDigger 1,238th of 1,737 statewide, at the 29th percentile and one star for 2025–2026. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how well the school serves African American students is at the 64th percentile, 35 points above its overall percentile; for Low Socio Economic Status Students, it is at the 54th percentile, 25 points higher. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 13.8, and 87% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These are context measures, not explanations for test results.
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