Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch

Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, teacheing 463 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 22% above typical.

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

On the student-mix side, Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 44% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.5%; this one delivers 19.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Goode STEM Academy HS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 22.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Hampton Elem Fine & Perf Arts Sch's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 538 (now 463). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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