Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center

Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, teacheing 348 students in grades K through 8.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center logs that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% White, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.8%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Manierre Elem School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 348). The Black share of enrollment expanded from 40% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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