Belding Elem School

Belding Elem School is an elementary campus of heavily attended scale in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, hosting 609 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 60% larger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Belding Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Belding Elem School logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 37% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Belding Elem School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Belding Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.0%; this one delivers 53.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate 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. Belding Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Disney II Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Belding Elem School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Belding Elem School's enrollment has edged up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 584 (now 609). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 43% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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