Academy for Global Citizenship

Academy for Global Citizenship is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, serveing 486 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 28% above the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Academy for Global Citizenship is among them.

On the student-mix side, Academy for Global Citizenship shows that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 2% White, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Academy for Global Citizenship sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.3%; actual is 23.1%, a gap of -15.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Academy for Global Citizenship is one campus in the mix.

Hearst Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Academy for Global Citizenship ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Academy for Global Citizenship operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 466 students in 2018 compared to 486 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 7% to 2% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 126.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.