Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch

Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch operates as an average-sized primary school in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 513 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch lists that Black students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.3%; this one delivers 8.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

Powell Elem Paideia Comm Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bradwell Comm Arts & Sci Elem Sch comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 490 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 1% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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