Clissold Elem School

As an average-sized elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, Clissold Elem School caters to 508 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

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

Looking at the student body, Clissold Elem School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 71% of enrollment; the rest consists of 16% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Clissold Elem School shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 34% of students at Clissold Elem School 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clissold Elem School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.1%; this one comes in at 26.4%, -25.7 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Clissold Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Vick Early Childhood & Family Ctr, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clissold Elem School. On composite proficiency, Clissold Elem School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Clissold Elem School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 508). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 26% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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