Brighton Park Elem School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Brighton Park Elem School is a small K-5 school, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It hosts 298 students across grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Brighton Park Elem School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Brighton Park Elem School shows that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brighton Park Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.2%; this one delivers 24.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Brighton Park Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Acero Chtr - Sandra Cisneros Elem, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brighton Park Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Brighton Park Elem School's enrollment has declined 35% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 298). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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