Cassell Elem School

Located at 11314 S Spaulding Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Cassell Elem School is a mid-tier K-5 school that hosts 364 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cassell Elem School shows that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Cassell Elem School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cassell Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 62.3%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Cassell Elem School is one.

Mount Greenwood Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cassell Elem School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 49.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Cassell Elem School's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 411 (now 364). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 16% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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