Creative Communications Acad

As a cozy middle school in Calumet City, Illinois, Creative Communications Acad hosts 246 students from grade 6, operated by Dolton SD 149. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Creative Communications Acad sits 47% below that benchmark.

Dolton SD 149 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,192 students; Creative Communications Acad is among them.

On demographics, Creative Communications Acad shows that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Creative Communications Acad records 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.5:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Creative Communications Acad sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 13.8%; this one delivers 13.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Creative Communications Acad is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: School of Fine Arts, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Creative Communications Acad ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 17.4%.

Creative Communications Acad operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creative Communications Acad has increased 24%, going from 199 students in 2018 to 246 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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