CICS - Basil Campus

CICS - Basil Campus operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 541 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 42% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. CICS - Basil Campus is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CICS - Basil Campus logs that Black students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school shows 25% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 41.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, CICS - Basil Campus ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 17.9%; CICS - Basil Campus posts 36.9%, +18.9 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. CICS - Basil Campus is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Fulton Elem School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CICS - Basil Campus ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 20.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. CICS - Basil Campus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CICS - Basil Campus has contracted 26%, going from 736 students in 2018 to 541 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 14% to 25%.

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