Blair Early Childhood Center

Blair Early Childhood Center is a low-enrollment elementary school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, located in Chicago, Illinois. It reported 164 students in pre-K through 1 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 57% lower.

The district, Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, operates 622 schools serving 324,396 students.

Hispanic students are 79% of those enrolled at Blair Early Childhood Center. The next largest groups are 13% White, 3% Black, and 2% Native American. In Cook County overall, about 27% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 35% means there is a 35% chance two randomly chosen students at Blair Early Childhood Center are from different groups.

Blair Early Childhood Center has 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 6.4:1. The school's 6.4:1 compares with an average of 13.9:1 for elementary schools in Illinois. The school has 60% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.

The county, Cook County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $83,498 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Blair Early Childhood Center.

Of the public schools around it, Blair Early Childhood Center is closest to Dore Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).

In 2020-21, federal data counted 48 students at Blair Early Childhood Center; in 2024-25, 164. The grades served may not have been the same in both years.

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