Art in Motion Charter School

Art in Motion Charter School is a compact secondary school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school hosts 602 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 834.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Art in Motion Charter School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Art in Motion Charter School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Art in Motion Charter School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Art in Motion Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.6%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $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 Art in Motion Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: South Shore Intl Col Prep HS, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Art in Motion Charter School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Art in Motion Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, the feed for Art in Motion Charter School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.