Carol Moseley Braun School

Carol Moseley Braun School is a K-5 school of tight-knit scale in Calumet City, Illinois, run under Dolton SD 149, enrolling 264 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Carol Moseley Braun School sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Dolton SD 149 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,192 students. Carol Moseley Braun School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Carol Moseley Braun School shows that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Carol Moseley Braun School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 13.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Carol Moseley Braun School is one.

Nearest neighbor: S T E M Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carol Moseley Braun School. On composite proficiency, Carol Moseley Braun School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 16.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Carol Moseley Braun School's enrollment has declined 20% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 264). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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