This school year, the two-building Field School campus at 535 N. Parkside Ave. in Austin will be fully occupied for the first time since 2013, when Chicago Public Schools closed Francis Scott Key Elementary.
For the 2025-2026 school year, over 300 kindergarteners through eighth graders will occupy Field School, about 24% from Oak Park and River Forest, over 27% from Austin, and the rest from western suburbs and West Side neighborhoods of Chicago.
The school’s ribbon cutting on August 16, 2025 | Todd Bannor 
The crowd at the ribbon cutting ceremony | Todd Bannor 
The Field School Head of School Jeremy Mann speaks at the school’s ribbon cutting ceremony on August 16, 2025 | Todd Bannor 
The Field School Head of Advancement Grace Liu, State Representative La Shawn Ford, School Board member Jacqueline Doctor Johnson, Head of School Jeremy Mann and School Board Chair Dana Cooper at the school’s ribbon cutting ceremony | Todd Bannor
The Field School’s north building opened in 2022, but middle schoolers have been attending the Field School out of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park — where the school started in 2017 — because there wasn’t enough space at the Austin campus.
After renovations to the south building, all the students will now be on the same campus again. The north building will mainly host kindergarten through fifth grade, while the south building will hold classrooms for middle schoolers.
