Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES

Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 512 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that works with 324,396 students overall.

Demographically, Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES higher than the state norm the norm. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.5%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows 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 Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES is one.

Ellington Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 11.0%.

Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES operates from a high-density location. Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 521 (now 512).

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