Cameron Elem School

Cameron Elem School operates as a large primary school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 671 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 76% larger than typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Cameron Elem School is among them.

Demographically, Cameron Elem School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Beyond that, the school lists 15% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Cameron Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cameron Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.2%, the actual is 18.1%, a residual of +2.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Cameron Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Casals Elem School, roughly 0.2 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), Cameron Elem School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 18.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Cameron Elem School's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 773 (now 671). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 72% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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