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Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar
Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, works with 528 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% larger than the state mean of about 381.
Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.6%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar is one.
Nearest neighbor: Acero Chtr Sch Netwrk- Victoria, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 26.0%.
Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar operates from an urban location. Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Trend over the last 7 years. Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 571 (now 528). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.
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