Caroline Sibley Elem School

Caroline Sibley Elem School is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in Calumet City, Illinois, one of the schools within Dolton SD 149, caters to 434 students in grades K through 5.

Dolton SD 149 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,192 students. Caroline Sibley Elem School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Caroline Sibley Elem School logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Caroline Sibley Elem School shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.8:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Caroline Sibley Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.9%, the actual is 12.3%, a residual of -1.6 points.

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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Caroline Sibley Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Carol Moseley Braun School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Caroline Sibley Elem School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Caroline Sibley Elem School's enrollment has declined 33% since 2018, when it stood at 646 (now 434). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

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