Barbara A Sizemore Campus

Barbara A Sizemore Campus, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Chicago, Illinois, run under Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch, caters to 231 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Barbara A Sizemore Campus sits 39% below that benchmark.

Within Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch, which oversees 2 schools and 524 students, Barbara A Sizemore Campus is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Barbara A Sizemore Campus logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%); the rest breaks down as 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Barbara A Sizemore Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.0%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of +12.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Barbara A Sizemore Campus is one.

Noble St Chtr-Johnson Colg Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Barbara A Sizemore Campus at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 12.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Barbara A Sizemore Campus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Barbara A Sizemore Campus's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 231). Class-load math has fell: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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