KIPP Academy Chicago Campus

KIPP Academy Chicago Campus operates as an expansive elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 649 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so KIPP Academy Chicago Campus sits 70% larger than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; KIPP Academy Chicago Campus is among them.

Looking at the student body, KIPP Academy Chicago Campus logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%); the rest looks like 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, KIPP Academy Chicago Campus has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 162.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIPP Academy Chicago Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.3%, the actual is 16.4%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. KIPP Academy Chicago Campus is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Nash Elem School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIPP Academy Chicago Campus comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 12.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, KIPP Academy Chicago Campus runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KIPP Academy Chicago Campus has rose 87%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 649 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 99% to 86% over that span.

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