Public school / Primary
Volta Elem School
Chicago, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 170993001138
- District
- City of Chicago SD 299
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Volta Elem School is a public primary school in Chicago, Illinois, run by City of Chicago SD 299. It enrols 700 students — the 19350th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
700
Teachers
47.0
Students per teacher
14.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
85.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within City of Chicago SD 299
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lane Technical High School4,496 students
- 2Taft High School4,464 students
- 3Curie Metropolitan High School3,178 students
- 4Kenwood Academy High School2,338 students
- 5Young Magnet High School2,148 students
- 6Lincoln Park High School2,107 students
- 7Jones College Prep High School1,941 students
- 8Thomas Kelly College Preparatory1,903 students
- Enrollment+73.3%
- Teachers+80.8%
- Students per teacher+8.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+60.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory