Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch

Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch, a medium-sized K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, works with 465 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 22% larger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.7%, the actual is 19.6%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Shields Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch has decreased 18%, going from 570 students in 2018 to 465 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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