Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch

Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch, an one-room-style elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, enrolls 98 students, covering grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 74% leaner than typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch is among them.

Demographically, Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 2% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.7%; this one delivers 24.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 - Octavio Paz Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hammond Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 14.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch 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. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 74%: 370 students in 2018 compared to 98 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 92% to 98% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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