Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES

Located at 4027 W Grenshaw St, in Chicago, Illinois, Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES is a rural-scale elementary-level community that hosts 129 students (grades K through 8), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 66% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES logs that nearly all students (91%) are Black. The remainder looks like 9% 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, Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.5%; this one delivers 19.3%.

In the surrounding community, 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES is one.

YCCS-CCA Academy HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 18.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Frazier Perspectives Magnet ES has shrank 37%, going from 204 students in 2018 to 129 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 98% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 today.

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