Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts

Located at 5415 S Union Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts is a close-knit elementary school that teaches 272 students (grades pre-K through 8), run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts shows that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts 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 16.1%; Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts posts 31.7%, +15.6 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cook County shows 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts is one.

KIPP Chicago Chrtrs Bloom Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 17.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts's enrollment has shrank 35% since 2018, when it stood at 418 (now 272). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 93% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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