Chateaux School

Chateaux School operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Hazel Crest, Illinois, part of Prairie-Hills ESD 144. Current enrollment sits at 249 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Chateaux School sits 35% smaller than that benchmark.

Prairie-Hills ESD 144 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,473 students. Chateaux School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Chateaux School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Chateaux School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Chateaux School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chateaux School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.8%, the actual is 17.9%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows 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%. Chateaux School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Mae Jemison School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Chateaux School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.4%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Chateaux School's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 303 (now 249). Black enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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