Blackhawk Primary Center

As an intimate primary school in Park Forest, Illinois, Blackhawk Primary Center educates 167 students from grades K through 3, part of Park Forest SD 163. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Blackhawk Primary Center sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Park Forest SD 163 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,524 students; Blackhawk Primary Center is among them.

On the student-mix side, Blackhawk Primary Center shows that 77% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Blackhawk Primary Center has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 81% of students at Blackhawk Primary Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Blackhawk Primary Center tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.6%.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Blackhawk Primary Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: 21st Century Primary Center, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blackhawk Primary Center. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Blackhawk Primary Center at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 25.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Blackhawk Primary Center's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 224 (now 167). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 88% to 77%.

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