SEPTEMBER 2019 | CHICAGO 97
PHOTOGRAPHY: (BARASH) COURTESY OF PETER BARASH; (PEARLMUTTER) COURTESY OF SHANA PEARLMUTTER; (MATTHES) PORCHLIGHT PICTURES INC.
1 Annie Keller Regional Gifted Center (S) Mount Greenwood 1–8 242 96 98 93
2 Skinner North Classical School (S) Goose Island K–8 494 93 94 60
3 Thomas A. Edison Regional Gifted Center (S) Albany Park K–8 271 92 87 62
4 Ted Lenart Regional Gifted Center (S) West Chatham PK–8 284 89 85 54
5 John C. Haines Elementary School Chinatown PK–8 687 58 67 58
6 Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Lincoln Park K–8 897 86 75 75
7 Hawthorne Scholastic Academy Lake View K–8 567 79 78 60
8 Mark T. Skinner West Elementary School Near West Side PK–8 1,100 78 67 55
9 Edgar Allan Poe Classical School (S) Pullman K–6 208 78 76 67
10 Louisa May Alcott College Preparatory ES Park West PK–8 630 61 63 90
11 Christopher Columbus Elementary School Ukrainian Village PK–8 285 43 32 86
12 Stephen Decatur Classical School (S) West Rogers Park K–6 281 91 89 78
13 William H. Prescott Elementary School Lincoln Park PK–8 432 72 55 70
14 Christian Ebinger Elementary School Edison Park K–8 831 68 59 79
15 Mount Greenwood Elementary School Mount Greenwood K–8 1,124 69 62 92
16 Ravenswood Elementary School Ravenswood PK–8 547 60 47 76
17 John H. Kinzie Elementary School Garfield Ridge PK–8 687 53 40 80
18 Oriole Park School Oriole Park PK–8 751 62 60 70
19 KIPP One Academy (C) W. Garfield Park K–1, 5–6 418 24 19 86
20 Ellen Mitchell Elementary School West Town PK–8 400 61 43 85
21 Jean Baptiste Beaubien Elementary School Jefferson Park PK–8 1,096 65 56 66
22 Oscar Mayer Magnet School Lincoln Park PK–8 766 71 61 65
23 Talman Elementary School Gage Park PK–8 436 33 31 82
24 Kate S. Kellogg Elementary School Beverly K–8 256 50 28 77
25 James McDade Classical School (S) West Chesterfield K–6 195 84 81 29
26 James Ward Elementary School Bridgeport PK–8 587 47 50 64
27 Acero–Esmeralda Santiago Campus (C) Humboldt Park K–8 283 31 31 82
28 Eliza Chappell Elementary School Ravenswood PK–8 572 48 42 78
29 Robert Healy Elementary School Bridgeport PK–8 1,420 54 60 62
30 Emiliano Zapata Academy Little Village PK–8 779 43 42 75
31 John C. Burroughs Elementary School Brighton Park PK–8 473 53 35 69
32 John C. Coonley Elementary School North Center K–8 1,008 60 55 75
33 Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School North Center K–8 958 53 48 64
34 Amelia Earhart Options for Knowledge ES Calumet Heights K–8 239 50 36 67
35 Augustus H. Burley Elementary School Lake View PK–8 533 64 55 67
36 Arthur E. Canty Elementary School Irving Woods PK–8 855 57 48 59
37 Edgebrook Elementary School Edgebrook K–8 512 72 63 64
38 LaSalle II Magnet Elementary School East Ukrainian Village PK–8 590 56 54 70
39 KIPP Academy Chicago Campus (C) South Austin 5–8 347 23 17 81
40 Disney II Magnet School Old Irving Park PK–6 431 62 47 81
41 Lyman A. Budlong Elementary School Ravenswood PK–8 772 42 31 66
42 Thomas J. Waters Elementary School Ravenswood Gardens K–8 626 48 41 75
43 George Armstrong International Studies ES West Rogers Park PK–8 1,419 37 31 80
44 Sauganash Elementary School Sauganash K–8 605 61 54 84
45 Inter-American Elementary Magnet School Lake View PK–8 711 39 38 52
46 Mary E. McDowell Elementary School Calumet Heights PK–5 155 49 36 75
47 Jonathan Burr Elementary School Bucktown PK–8 432 53 44 84
48 Chicago Academy Elementary School Portage Park PK–8 603 41 43 59
49 Everett McKinley Dirksen Elementary School O’Hare PK–8 944 51 47 49
50 CICS–Avalon/South Shore Campus (C) Marynook K–8 478 48 37 59
(S) SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT SCHOOL (C) CHARTER SCHOOLTOP ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Grades EnrollmentPARCC reading attainment %PARCC math attainment %5Essentials
KATHLEEN
MATTHES
Second-grade
teacher
Matthes had started
to notice signs of
stress among young
students. “Tests and
lockdown drills cause
anxiety, but 7-year-
olds haven’t learned
to calm it down.” So in
January she custom-
ized a yoga curriculum
that teaches kids to
cycle through poses
and meditate. Since
then, fights among
her pupils have all but
ceased. “They have
something they can
focus on to get their
mind off a problem.”PETER BARASH
Social studies
teacher
SHANA
PEARLMUTTER
Art teacher
The two have been
running the Legacy
Project, a program
that blends social
studies with visual art,
since 2007. It encour-
ages eighth graders
to create permanent
art installations that
express what they
see as their role and
responsibility in the life
of their community, the
country, and the world.
The goal is to create
engaged citizens.
“These kids are coming
out of my class real-
izing that their voice
matters,” says Barash.CHICAGO