Christopher House Chrt ES

Christopher House Chrt ES operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 502 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Christopher House Chrt ES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Christopher House Chrt ES shows that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Christopher House Chrt ES has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Christopher House Chrt ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Christopher House Chrt ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.1%, the actual is 19.6%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Christopher House Chrt ES is one campus in the mix.

Northwest Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Christopher House Chrt ES comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Christopher House Chrt 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. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 47%: 341 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025.

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