Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem

Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 452 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem logs that the largest single group is Black, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 26% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.2%; this one delivers 8.6%.

Across the wider county, 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem is one.

Howe Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem. On composite proficiency, Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 21.5%.

Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 452). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 90% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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