Blair Early Childhood Center

Blair Early Childhood Center operates as a cozy K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 164 students spanning grades pre-K through 1. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 57% below typical.

Blair Early Childhood Center is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that enrolls 324,396 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Blair Early Childhood Center logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 79%; the rest breaks down as 13% White, 3% Black, 2% Native American. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Blair Early Childhood Center is one campus in the mix.

Dore Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 180 students in 2018 compared to 164 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 11% to 3% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 8.6:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 today.

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